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Re: Working on HTML5.1

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Post by cpeterso »

currysausage wrote: post #10
kensai wrote: post #6

Is there 6.0 in the works also somewhere? Given the language's importance in a future universally-connected world, it would not surprise me.

Kinda. WHATWG (who do the actual work on HTML) have dropped the version number and made HTML a living standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ See also the FAQ: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_does_.22Living_Standar... And this quote by Hixie: "You know what will be around ten years from now by looking at what is implemented in two browsers today. If it’s implemented in two browsers today, I can almost…

Will we still be saying "HTML5" in ten years?

Re: Working on HTML5.1

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Post by CM30 »

yincrash wrote: post #3

Has this diverged from WHATWG's "living" HTML spec or is it just a snapshot of it?

The W3C prefer their specifications to be 'finished' at a certain point, and the WHATWG simply add their changes to the living spec.

So for the most part, changes get made in the WHATWG spec, they get copied to the W3C one, the W3C then stops copying additions at a certain point (say, when HTML 5.0 is considered 'complete') and then moves onto version 5.1. So version 5.1 is basically all the WHATWG additions that didn't make it into 5.0 before the spec was 'finalised', along with various changes made because the two groups don't get along with each other too well.

Re: Working on HTML5.1

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Post by CM30 »

cpeterso wrote: post #11
currysausage wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kinda. WHATWG (who do the actual work on HTML) have dropped the version number and made HTML a living standard: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/ See also the FAQ: https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_does_.22Living_Standar... And this quote by Hixie: "You know what will be around ten years from now by looking at what is implemented in two browsers today. If it’s implemented in two browsers today, I can almost…

Will we still be saying "HTML5" in ten years?

The WHATWG thinks we shouldn't really be referring to it as HTML 5 now, just HTML.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#is-...?

https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML5.3F

Re: Working on HTML5.1

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Post by yuhong »

CM30 wrote: post #16
cpeterso wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Will we still be saying "HTML5" in ten years?

The WHATWG thinks we shouldn't really be referring to it as HTML 5 now, just HTML. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/introduction.html#is-... ? https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_is_HTML5.3F

I think even the buzzword is a misnomer. Hint: What did people call before "HTML5" took hold?

Re: Working on HTML5.1

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Post by bshimmin »

mozumder wrote: post #5
yincrash wrote: post #3

Has this diverged from WHATWG's "living" HTML spec or is it just a snapshot of it?

They basically hate each other.

I think the WHATWG would have a nice time finishing off CSS3.

(Seriously, the W3C started writing drafts in 1999; is it ever going to be finished? Why did they start on CSS4 before finishing CSS3?)

Re: Working on HTML5.1

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Post by seeing »

From the document: HTML is a very large specification.

My translation: HTML is an evolutionary dead end, and because it's so large it won't die in our lifetime.

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