End of 2009, W3C to Increase Resources on HTML 5 2009-07-02: Today the Director announces that when the XHTML 2 Working Group charter expires as scheduled at the end of 2009, the charter will not be renewed. By doing so, and by increasing resources in the HTML Working Group, W3C hopes to accelerate the progress of HTML 5 and clarify W3C's position regarding the future of HTML. A FAQ answers questions about the future of deliverables of the XHTML 2 Working Group, and the status of various discussions related to HTML. Learn more about the HTML Activity. -- http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item119
portable to a broad collection of client devices, and applicable to the majority of Internet content. -- http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/introduction.html It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes. -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml-basic-20001219
Working Group, chartered to create the next HTML standard with the active participation of browser vendors, software developers, and content designers. "It's time to revisit the standard and see what we can do to meet the current community needs, and to do so effectively with commitments from browser manufacturers in a visible and open way," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. -- http://www.w3.org/QA/2007/03/new-html-working-wg.html ৽)5.-8( 8)"58( 5IF8FC)ZQFSUFYU"QQMJDBUJPO 5FDIOPMPHZ8PSLJOH(SPVQ ͱڞಉͰ࡞ۀ
new technologies being developed by the W3C ... are often designed to address other needs and only consider Web Applications in a peripheral way.” -- http://www.whatwg.org/news/start
5th major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). In this version, new features are introduced to help Web application authors, new elements are introduced based on research into prevailing authoring practices, and special attention has been given to de fi ning clear conformance criteria for user agents in an effort to improve interoperability. -- http://www.w3.org/TR/html5