http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2009/05/how_long_should.html Wireless mobility - Innovation - Digital convergence - mobile web 2.0 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:47:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com/archives/2009/05/how_long_should.html/comment-page-1#comment-1818 Justin James Tue, 26 May 2009 17:36:04 +0000 http://dev5.indigocontenthost.co.uk/archives/2009/05/how_long_should.html#comment-1818 You've made the same unfortunate misunderstanding regarding HTML 5 that Jeff Croft made in his famous rant... Ian *never* said that HTML 5 would be "done" in 2022. In fact, the HTML 5 spec is nearly done, and it is headed to "Last Call" status in a few months. What Ian specifically said is that HTML 5 would not be considered a full W3C recommendation until 2022, which is dependent on *two fully compliant implementations*. Seeing as you can't even find one fully compliant implementation of HTML 4 out there, saying "2022" for that criteria to be met is no surprise. HTML 5 will be "done" in late 2009 or early 2010, if I had a guess, based on the activity I have been seeing on the HTML mailing list. In fact, it's been published as a "working draft" for some time. Is the stadnard process perfect? Far from it. Probably 2/3rds of the messages on the HTML 5 list of political nonsense regarding things that most people find irrelevant, like matters of process. But at the same time, HTML 5 is not nearly as broken as many people have interpreted based on the "2022" number. J.Ja You’ve made the same unfortunate misunderstanding regarding HTML 5 that Jeff Croft made in his famous rant… Ian *never* said that HTML 5 would be “done” in 2022. In fact, the HTML 5 spec is nearly done, and it is headed to “Last Call” status in a few months. What Ian specifically said is that HTML 5 would not be considered a full W3C recommendation until 2022, which is dependent on *two fully compliant implementations*. Seeing as you can’t even find one fully compliant implementation of HTML 4 out there, saying “2022″ for that criteria to be met is no surprise. HTML 5 will be “done” in late 2009 or early 2010, if I had a guess, based on the activity I have been seeing on the HTML mailing list. In fact, it’s been published as a “working draft” for some time.
Is the stadnard process perfect? Far from it. Probably 2/3rds of the messages on the HTML 5 list of political nonsense regarding things that most people find irrelevant, like matters of process. But at the same time, HTML 5 is not nearly as broken as many people have interpreted based on the “2022″ number.
J.Ja

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