LXer: HTML5 is done - HTML 5.1 next on standards agenda
 

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has officially announced that the HTML5 and Canvas2D specifications are now complete and are now candidate recommendations. This does not mean that they are now a standard, but the W3C has moved on to the phase where members, businesses and developers can use the specifications for "implementation and planning".

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If the standard is now frozen, theoretically it might speed up the process of its implementation in web browsers... that is standard compliant browsers:)

I didn't see anything about CSS in the headline, and most of the proprietary extensions in use now (-webkit-*, -moz-*, etc) are currently CSS.

Related:

http://arstechnica.com/information-t...t-the-new-ie6/

I wasn't talking about CSS. The HTML5 support across browsers is generally good but not ALL the features are supported yet.

http://speckyboy.com/2012/03/25/gett...compatibility/
http://html5test.com/

My point was related to the hope that as the HTML5 specifications have been completed, it might be easier for developers to focus on them to provide full support for HTML5.

Thanks for sharing the article.