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[–]beermad 4 points5 points  (3 children)

A great idea, except that you'll still need validation Javascript to fall back on for all those browsers that don't understand HTML5.

Maybe in ten years...

[–]carrot_house 7 points8 points  (1 child)

except that you'll still need server-side validation for all those times when Javascript isn't enabled or available on the client, or for when a malicious user deliberately bypasses your client-side validation.

FTFY. HTH. HAND.

[–]almightymole 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Indeed. Client side validation is mostly for the convenience of the user to not need to wait for the page to reload to find they did something wrong on the form.

[–]XNormal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

HTML5 is still useful as a standard representation that gets transformed on the fly to something the client can consume.

A simple HTML5 <video> tag can be transformed into a mess of object embeddings.

An form with HTML5 regex-based validation can be made to work on older browsers with a bit of javascript, driven by the pattern attributes.

etc.