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rimantas on Dec 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Does HTML5 excite you? Why or why not?

What new syntax are you talking about? There is no new syntax in HTML5.

fauigerzigerk on Dec 1, 2009 [–]

Yes there is: http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5-is-html-and-xml.html

"HTML 5 is being written in two syntaxes: html and XML. Because SGML has never been deployed in browsers and many html authoring tools, HTML 5 defines a new serialization called html, which looks a lot like the previous known SGML."

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