TML 5 is an interesting beastie. The specification was not
planned; The W3C was committed to HTML 4.1 as the last word in
HTML. As such, most of the requests for HTML 5 came from the
HTML user community itself, largely through the advent of the
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG ).
The push from WHATWG was strong enough to prompt the formation
of a HTML 5 working group a couple of years ago. Since then, the
HTML 5 working group has slowly gone through the process of
taking a somewhat hand-waving specification and recasting it in
W3C terms, along with all the politics that the process entails.
On April 23, 2009, the HTML 5 group released the most recent
draft of the specification. Overall, it represents a
considerable simplification from the previous release,
especially as a number of initially proposed changes to the
specification have been scaled back. The group defined roles for
the proposed changes elsewhere. HTML 5 is a broad specification,
and consequently, dozens of distinct chan