Those who are curious about the final release date for the heated debates HTML5 need wonder no more: the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) intends to finalize the standard by July 2014, the Organization announced Monday.
"This is the first time we were able to answer the questions of when it will be done," said Ian Jacobs, W3C head of marketing and communication. "More and more people from industries are increasingly asking when it will be done. They require very high levels of stability and interoperability standards.
HTML5 is the next version of the HyperText Markup Language, a platform-independent standards used worldwide for rendering Web pages. Concerns when should aim to have increased in recent years, as Apple, Google and Microsoft touted yet unfinished standard as a basis for creating Web applications.
Despite the enthusiasm of those companies and others, many have warned against using the standard before it is finalized. Due to its complexity, the estimates as and when it should be finished HTML5 ranged wildly, from a year or two for not until 2022.
The last call for feedback has been announced for 22 May this year.
From then until 2014, the HTML Working Group will have different tasks to complete before the standard is finalized, Jacobs said. The Group has to review and address the comments submitted until may expire. The feedback from this "Last Call" should be quite substantial and could cause another revision of the document.
The Group also for the design of a test suite, one that can understand the wide range of different browsers and platforms that renders pages and Web applications written in HTML5.
Such interoperability is crucial, given the expanding range of devices accessing the Web, including TVs, tablets and phones. "The goal is a broad interoperability," said Jacobs.
The W3C expects any new features to be added after the last call. Since that time the Group held only by implementers and feedback for the W3C interaction domain, which oversees the development of HTML, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and other Web standards, through the test suite tests, said Philippe Le Hégaret, lead.
As the HTML5 working group will start evaluating Finalizes new features and improvements for subsequent versions. While the members of the Working Group have decreed that will do away with the standard version numbering, Jacobs, nor would definitely say that Hégaret there will be future releases are numbered, e.g. HTML6 or HTML5.
For now, the Organization will classify his work with the title "HTML .next", said Jacobs.
The W3C also announced Monday that it has extended the Charter of the HTML Working Group to 2014. The HTML Working Group is composed of more than 400 members from browser vendors, software developers and other organisations rely on Web standards.
Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and General technology breaking news for the IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @ Joab_Jackson. E-mail address of Joab is Joab_Jackson@idg.com
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