About a week ago, this commit [https://github.com/whatwg/dom/commit/89b5f1d8dd02ec458dd99ed82a3a005c8650c31c] was made to the WHATWG DOM Platform spec. For some developers, the sounding of HTML5's death knell may come not a moment too soon. HTML5, with the native browser functionality and semantics that it brought, was also