It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @02:54AM from the well-that's-a-strong-word dept.

rjmarvin (3001897) writes The Worldwide Web Consortium today has elevated the HTML5 specification to 'recommendation' status , giving it the group's highest level of endorsement, which is akin to becoming a standard. The W3C also introduced Application Foundations with the announcement of the HTML5 recommendation to aid developers in writing Web applications, and said the organization is working with patents holders of the H.264 codec to agree on a baseline royalty-free interoperability level commitment.

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Re:Well, that's cool I guess by tuffy · 2014-10-28 03:07 · Score: 5, Interesting

Turning de facto standards that have been implemented in actual browsers into a formal specification is how standards work best.
Coming up with a specification first and hoping someone will be able to implement it is how we wound up with Perl 6.

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