{"id":141,"date":"2007-05-10T13:32:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T13:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2007\/05\/html5"},"modified":"2013-09-07T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T16:42:54","slug":"html5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2007\/05\/html5","title":{"rendered":"HTML5 Accepted by HTMLWG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s about time!  After over 2 months and dozens of pointless debates on public-html\u2013the W3C&#8217;s HTMLWG mailing list\u2013we have finally achieved something productive.  The HTML5 spec, which we have been working on in the WHATWG for the past 3 years, has <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-html\/2007May\/0909.html\">finally been accepted for review<\/a> as the basis for the official HTML 5.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>This is great news!  It&#8217;s certainly better than the other alternative proposed: start with HTML4 and drop the transitional features (yes, <em>some people actually did suggest that!<\/em>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2007\/03\/HTML-WG-charter.html\">The charter<\/a> says we&#8217;re supposed to have a first public working draft published by June this year, and it looks like we will actually be able to achieve that.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HTML5 has been accepted for review by the HTMLWG.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7,21,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}