Being a Systems Admin, I pose the “Which browser do you use?” Question ALL THE TIME… About 10% of the time do I get the answer I am looking for. I’ll further your point and add that there are about as many people who don’t know the difference between “Windows Explorer” and “Internet Explorer.”

As a business owner, I do try at every turn to educate my clients on every aspect of their PC’s, which they have questions about, or do not comprehend. The sad part is that there are many of them who pretend to listen, but the discussion is in one ear and out the other. Many also have the mentality that they do not want to know, and just fix my stupid computer. I find this in every age group.

This standard discussed here might make things a lot easier for people creating their own websites and such… But without the understanding of the ‘nuts and bolts’ of the why and how things work in site development, they will still need to fall back on the experienced crowd for help because they either don’t know how, or don’t wanna know how things work. I’ll also argue that bringing DOM or “Document Object Model” is already present in many CMS (Content Management Systems) like WordPress or Joomla. The local storage side mentioned above, if used in the way I am thinking they do (Usable space on one’s PC to host documents and files on the Internet), in the hands of the novice will serve as a security nightmare for people at all levels of the IT industry. Things often sound better on digital paper than in application.

Many of the features discussed in this article are already present as well. I do agree however that implementation should take the slow and steady approach in development, to create a sound, reliable, secure, and much improved web standard. It will be interesting to see the pace in which people in general step up to the HTML 5 standard.

By the way, I do support HTML 5.