Whatwg News & Articles

HTML5 defines the 5th major revision of the core language of the Web. In a recently published work the W3C details the differences between HTML 4 and HTML 5 and provides insight into the thinking behind the changes.

It's no surprise that HTML 5 is coming. However, it's been a bit easier to miss that a lot of work has also been going into the issue of Web forms.

So much so, that the HTML Working Group has announced that Web Forms 2.0 have been superseded by HTML 5.

The W3C, like, OWNS the Web, man.
Work continues there on drafting specifications for the next version of HTML, and the working group charged with this task has just released a new editor’s draft detailing progress. While the process is far from finished, the new browsers are already recognizing some new elements of the updated standard, so we thought we’d take a look at how HTML 5 is shaping up.