HTML5 in the browser: Canvas, video, audio, and graphics Where
Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari stand on HTML5 Canvas,
HTML5 video, SVG, and WebGL The five characters HTML5 are now an
established buzzword, found everywhere on the Web and often
given top billing in slides, feature lists, and other places
where terms du jour congregate. Nonprogrammers who must either
manage or work with programmers are even beginning to pick up
the term. Just two days ago, someone who can't manage a TV
remote explained that he was sure his company's Web presence
would be much better because they were using HTML5. The five
characters are in reality just the name of a document that isn't
even finished. The W3C, whose job it is to build standard-
setting descriptions of Web technology, has been contemplating
the fifth version of the HTML standard for almost seven years.
The latest HTML5 draft may finally become official in 2022, at
least according to Ian Hickson, one of the authors who works for
Google. That is clearly too fa