Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing ...

Earlier today I ran across an interview with Ian Hickson, former Opera developer, now at Google, about the future of X/HTML 5.0. Hickson is the editor the X/HTML 5 spec which is not to be confused ...

HTML 5: Markup gets a makeover Be that as it may, HTML 5 has inherited many additions originally proposed for XHTML 2, including a number of features designed to improve document structure. For ...

Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...