HTML5 specs finally finalized

[Bob]

The World Wide Web Consortium, or W3C, has announced that it has finally finalized the specs for the HTML5 standard after almost eight years of work. This should allow rich content to work seamlessly across desktop and mobile platforms. Though parts of HTML5 have been used by web developers over the years, the final W3C recommendation is now ready.

HTML5 brings the next generation of the Web. It wasn't so long ago that the Web was about browsing static documents. Today's Web is a much richer platform. We're now at a stable state that everyone can build to the standard and be certain that it will be implemented in all browsers. If we didn't have complete interoperability, we wouldn't have one Web.

Full Article: http://crackberry.com/html5-specs-finally-finalized
W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/

 

[Paul B]

HTML5 brings the next generation of the Web.

Eight years late...

 

[DRE]

lol finally finalized

 

[Forsaken]

Full Article: http://crackberry.com/html5-specs-finally-finalized
W3C: http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/

I've lost a lot of respect for W3C over their continued squabbling with WHATWG over the HTML5 spec.

It just does not make sense to have a ~15 year delay in new iterations when the web constantly evolves. Using adaptive/responsive design as an example, techniques and implementations have changed greatly this last year alone.

 

[Daniel Hood]

Guys you can't rush perfection. By perfection I obviously mean something that half the browsers will ignore anyway.