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Re:The Edge of HTML5 by ricardobeat on Saturday January 21, 2012 @02:22PM (#3494316)
Do you mean that the latest version of Safari on iOS 5, released a couple months ago, is an obsolete browser? It is amazingly easy to make a page like that work in every browser made since 1996. And it does work on Firefox, albeit very slowly.

Things like this presentation are the actual reason we got into "this mess". Making your pages accessible to everyone is a necessity. I don't mean to be impolite, but you need to revisit your concepts. HTML5 is all about gracefully handling mark-up errors in a consistent way, not the opposite. HTML is originally a language for authors, not programmers. You're thinking of XHTML vs HTML, and that's a completely different matter.

Re:The Edge of HTML5 by tomjen3 on Sunday January 22, 2012 @04:21AM (#3496115)
That depends on what features it supports, but a few months is quite a long time ago in browser development.

On the other hand ie9 is already obsolete.

And how exactly does HTML gracefully handle a lack of canvas?