HTML5 adopted by W3C

News for the web development community: The new W3C HTML Working Group has voted to adopt the HTML5 draft specification comprising the Web Apps 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0 specifications developed and copyrighted as far by major browser companies Mozilla Foundation, Apple Inc., and Opera Software ASA under the umbrella of WHAT-WG, or Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, which includes Google, the Mozilla Foundation, Opera Software, Apple Inc. as its key contributing groups.

Some official infomation:

To summarise, the W3C will:

  • Adopt the WHAT-WG “HTML 5” (Web Applications 1.0 and Web Forms 2.0) as the current working draft, which will now be subject to review and development by the W3C HTML Working Group
  • Release a version of HTML which will be called “HTML 5”

The group editors will be:

What does this mean for webmasters?

  • The approved path for HTML development has shifted from XHTML 2.0 to HTML 5, indicating that HTML 5 may well not be as XML as XHTML 2.0.
  • The development process of HTML 5 is still in its early stages, and we are unlikely to see HTML 5 published before 2010.

Additional resources for HTML5

  1. WHAT-WG resources: FAQs, blogs, forums and more on HTML5.
  2. HTML5 elements and attributes remapped: including global attributes, event handling attributes and those defined in Web Applications 1.0 as well as Web Forms 2.0.
  3. HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web talks about HTML5 and XHTML2 as different means to create the future of the Web.
  4. Improve your forms using HTML5 displays the new functionalities to enhance your forms with HTML5.
  5. X/HTML 5 Versus XHTML 2: the competition and differentiation explained.
  6. (X)HTML5 Conformance Checking Service: HTML5 validator.

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