WordPress Developer Hours: Introduction to the HTML API

WordPress Developer Hours are held regularly on the last Wednesday of each month and feature topics of interest to developers working with and developing for WordPress.

Introduction to the HTML API

WordPress has been upping its HTML game, and the new HTML API is enabling new ways of reliably working with and modifying HTML.

Maybe you know this vicious cycle: ever-expanding regular expression patterns, HTML edge cases, and growing complexity of matching code ends up obscuring what you set out to do in the first place, and still isn't reliable. Let's talk about how this game is changing, what we can do today, and what is coming in the near future.

We'll start with some quick demos of using the new HTML API interfaces, then briefly discuss some of the limits of the new systems, and finish with a time for questions and discussion, so bring your curiosity.

If you are looking for some background reading, check out the Tag Processor documentation for a preview of the first of the new interfaces.

Topics to be covered
- What can the HTML API do today?
- What will the HTML API be able to do with the 6.4 release?
- When is the HTML API not appropriate?
- How fast and efficient is the HTML API?
- How reliable is the HTML API?