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Some of you readers may remember me making a post about HTML5 - its available here

I am have been thinking about it recently. I am not going to take back the things I said about it before, but I wanted to add some suggestions.

To the guys developing the spec:-

If you really want HTML5 to succeed then it is absolutely necessary that you:

• Really push the standard and adhering to validity. Validity is the key, without validity then that makes things awkward to parse and therefore harder for the search engines and screenscrapers
• Must create validation tools and parser libraries
• Push XHTML5 just as much as you push HTML5 - which will allow parsing/validation from both HTML5 parsers/validators and XML parsers/validators…. we then have bonus points.

I ask the above of you because I am a great believer in semantic code - code that gives meaning. To win with the standard; you are first going to have to win over the techies/researchers then you can try to win over the users. I also want to be able to embed RDFa and/or Microformats into my XHTML5 too, so if you can make that possible then I am willing to work with you on HTML5.

Many thanks,

Daniel

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