Re: [Lynx-dev] HTML 5

[David Woolley]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > as far as I can see, the <audio> and <video> tags contain something that
> > could be made into a hyperlink to the actual multimedia content by a
> > browser (to be downloaded and used with for example mplayer).

I tend to ignore HTML5 as I think it has totally lost the original 
spirit of HTML and is really intended purely as a medium for visual 
advertising copy, and moreover for use by people who code by cutting and 
pasting bad examples.

However, it was always my opinion that the IMG element was just a 
special sort of link in terms of the original HTML philosophy and 
therefore elements with names like audio and video may well best be 
treated as links.

It's never going to work well, though, because people who use them will 
use them to construct a single, compound, multimedia document, not to 
generate a portion of web in which the HTML helps you to find video and 
audio resources.


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