Html5 and the Open Web Platform

HTML5 and the Open Web Platform
Prof. Beat Signer
Department of Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

http://vub.academia.edu/BeatSigner
2 December 2005

A Brief History of HTML
 HTML 4.0 (1997) and HTML 4.01 (1999)
 In 1998 the W3C decided to not further evolve HTML!
 XHTML 1 (2000) and XHTML 1.1 (2001)
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XML version of HTML

 XHTML 2.0 (never finished, discontinued in 2009)
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revolutionary changes  breaking backwards compatibility

 WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology
Working Group) founded in 2004 (led by Ian Hickson)
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Web Forms 2.0 and Web Applications 1.0  HTML5

 In 2006 the W3C decided to work on HTML again
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March 26, 2012

based on WHATWG's Web Applications specification
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A Brief History of HTML ...
 HTML5 specification is currently developed simultaneously by the WHATWG and the W3C
HTML Working Group
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HTML – Living Standard, WHATWG
HTML5 – A Vocabulary and Associated APIs for HTML and
XHTML, W3C Working Draft

 Roadmap
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March 26, 2012

HTML5 Candidate Recommendation planned for 2012
HTML5 W3C Recommendation predicted for 2022

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HTML5
... HTML5 does not belong to a company or a specific browser. It has been forged by a community of people interested in evolving the web and a consortium of technological leaders that includes Google, Microsoft, Apple,
Mozilla, Facebook, IBM, HP, Adobe, and many others. The community and consortium continue to collaborate on universal browser standards to push web capabilities even further. The next generation of web apps can run highperformance graphics, work offline, store a large amount of data on the client, perform calculations fast, and take interactivity and collaboration to the next level. ...
W hy HTML5 Rocks, http://www.html5rocks.com/why
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