W3C publishes "HTML 5.1" as a recommendation

W3C's Web Platform Working Group (Web Platform Working Group) has released "HTML 5.1" as a W3C Recommendation, an organization promoting standardization of technologies used on the Web. This is in April 2016Aiming for the recommendation of September 2016Work was ongoing.

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W3C publishes HTML 5 as recommendationWhat I did was October 28, 2014. The publication of a new recommendation was for the first time since 15 years since "HTML 4.01" in 1999, and in the case of HTML 4.01 it was not supposed to be a web application or the like and it was "a format for describing a web page" , Renewal of the whole standard became.

HTML 5.1 which became the recommendation this time is a standard which was originally part of HTML 5. However, concerning all functions and crushing bugs and summarizing the discussion, "Plan 2014" was proposed in September 2012 due to the concern that the target "Recommendation in 2014" will not be in time. This plan divides the part that was already stable at that time as "HTML 5.0", the part remaining problem of the problem to be solved still more as "HTML 5.1", recommend HTML 5.0 in 2014, HTML Content to make 5.1 a recommendation in 2016. Thanks to the plan, HTML 5 (HTML 5.0) has been published as a recommendation on schedule as scheduled.

The HTML work group was advancing the HTML 5.1 formulation work until the end of 2015, but it was handed over to the web platform working group and in order to meet the scheduleTechnical specification published on GitHubIt was done.

The W3C Web platform working group has announced that "a stable version of the HTML format aims to formulate a workflow that can be published as a recommendation once a year", and the work of formulating HTML 5.2 is currently proceeding.