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W3C Set To Publish HTML 5.1, Work Already Started On HTML 5.2 (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: Members of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) are getting ready to launch the HTML 5.1 specification and have already started work on the upcoming HTML 5.2 version since mid-August. The HTML 5.1 standard has been promoted from a "Release Candidate" to a "Proposed Recommendation," the last step before it becomes a "W3C Recommendation," and officially replaces HTML 5 as the current HTML standard. As a Proposed Recommendation, HTML 5.1 is practically locked against major changes, and outside small tweaks here and there, we are currently looking at a 99.99 percent version of the upcoming HTML 5.1 standard. The vote to promote HTML 5.1 from RC to PR was approved in unanimity, a clear sign that major browser makers have reached a general consensus on what the standard should look like, and what they should be implementing in their browsers in upcoming versions. You can read more on HTML 5.1 here, the changes and support table here, and the HTML 5.2 specification draft here.
I don't see anything funny about that. Get ready for the bad old days of massive browser implementation incompatibilities to come back with full force when Google and Apple inevitably turn on each other and start playing tug-of-war with the standard while trampling Mozilla in the process.
Where are the new features that people actually need? Like for example being able to watch a live video stream in a browser without being a web guru and relying in complex server infrastructure. Instead of a simple [img src="rtsp://videoserver/live1/"] being part of the standard, we have all these big players pushing complex "trying to solve everything" systems that nobody but a select few have the time and resources to get up and running properly.