Funny but true

[Karlos]

Gee, they had HTML5 in 1996 ?

They (almost) had HTML5 when they had HTML1

Let's face it, from 1-4 they added lots of cruft for styling and such and turned it into a total dog's dinner. Then a wild CSS appeared and suddenly almost all of those additional formatting tags died the agonizing death they deserved.

In their place, HTML5 adds a few for improved document structure and a few tags for multimedia related stuff and retained a few structural additions of previous versions.

The bottom line though, is that a basic HTML5 document is far closer to vanilla HTML 1 than it is anything after.

[Karlos]

Even own a Mac.... which I'm ashamed to mention, although it has morphos on it. But sits under the table in the lounge gathering dust for the last 6 months. :-/

Think I still have some nerd in there :-)

I hate to say it, but the poor guy is long dead by now then. How did you even fit him in there?

[Karlos]

Face it, technology and the ways in which it is (mis)used evolves. People jumping up and down about the addition of the inclusion of multimedia tags in HTML5 are overlooking some of the other structural changes that are actually pretty sensible. There are many more reasons to use HTML5 than as a streaming content delivery system.