http://html5doctor.com/the-ride-to-5/ is an interesting overview of perspectives of various people who've been around HTML5 for years about its publication as a REC.
W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they already moved to living standard.
Indeed, the W3C's work on HTML5 is irrelevant. It exists only for the purpose of giving the W3C-qua-organization the appearance of being involved in the further development of HTML.
I think that's disingenuous — even as someone who has been around the WHATWG for longer than the W3C has been working on HTML5. One clear reason that publication as a REC is important because it implies a royalty-free patent grant between all members of the WG.
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#13I'm hoping for a scene graph standard for HTML6 and a spec that allows multiple documents per window (which themselves could be nodes on a scene graph) instead of the one document per window.
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#14The most important thing about HTML5 is ? What a weird statement.
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#15Cool, but It doesn't really matter what W3C says. In the end it is all about what the Oligarchy of popular browser implementers decide to implement.
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#16The other huge accomplishment of HTML5 is completely standardizing many fundamental parts of the web that previously were a mess of browser incompatibilities. 6 years ago, if you wanted to parse HTML, you might reach for BeautifulSoup, or libxml, or Hpricot, or Nokogiri...and they would all be subtly different in the parse tree they produced. And they couldn't do any better, because if you viewed the page in IE, or F…
Thanks for the mention of the Gumbo parser. I didn't know about that project.
From what I found, it seems like this is the most mature NodeJS module for using Gumbo:
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#17The most important thing about HTML5 is ? What a weird statement.
My thoughts exactly. Solving tag soup would be the most important thing in my opinion.
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#18Final standards document
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#19The most important thing about HTML5 is ? What a weird statement.
Maybe they mean for end users? Most people aren't going to care if developers have an easier job with browser compatibility.
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#20This announcement makes me miss Mark Pilgrim. I wish he was still publishing his blog.