Quote Originally Posted by FlashLackey View Post
Except on web applications, which seem logically to become more wide-spread as people use mobile devices instead of desktop machines.
How many mobile device users you know who use their tablets or phones for anything but media, texts, phone calls and information-only applications? I do not see that anything based on the ARM processors will ever be suitable for anything more, but I might be wrong (anything is possible). I know it will take a really, really great tablet to outperform and run my software applications with the same ease my x86 desktop machine does.

Being meant to be backward compatible and actually implemented that way by browser developers who have zero obligation to do so are two different things.
yes, I agree. I was responding to the automatic assumption that "html5 will fall prey to the same failures of html1,2,3 only moreso".

I am assuming the opposite, and will wait and see the outcome before calling doom and gloom. At the least, I don't think it will be worse than the current situation in terms of support for standards and I think it will be better.

The webkit, gecko and presto engines are all doing OK with html5 support right now. IE9 and IE10 (trident) are doing less well. None of them seem to care about the Element specific attributes laid out in the spec. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...engines_(HTML5).