[dba-Tech] HTML 5, emerging new W3C standard

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 6 11:34:32 CDT 2009


Jim, thanks for that heads-up.

P.

Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Frames will work if the content is from the original site or if the site is
> a 'trusted' site. The whole concern thing about frames was originally due to
> some coding errors in the original JavaScript that would allow a Framed site
> to take over the current host. That can not happen any more as all browsers
> have been fixed. The last time that could happen was back in the '90s. 
>
> ...But some perceptions persist.
>
> Jim
>
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> W3C seems to have been taken over by religionists. Frames are "bad". 
> CSS2 is "good". Like coding religionists of bygone years telling us that 
> dynamically typed languages were "bad", only O-O code was "good", &c.
>
> <rant>Web languages are for everyone, not just for Asperger geeks who 
> don't get out enough.</rant>
>
> PB
>
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>
> Jim Lawrence wrote:
>   
>> HTML 5 standard is on the horizon and seems on its way to W3C acceptance.
>>     
> If
>   
>> it is completed to its early specifications would it eliminate or render
>> unnecessary such protocols as Flash and SilverLight.
>>
>>
>>     
> http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/html-5-could-it-kill-flash-and-si
>   
>> lverlight-291?source=fssr
>>
>> Jim 
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