Re:W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
by thristian on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @04:35PM
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The spec published by WHATWG is a living standard, and is just called "HTML". The expectation is that every so often the W3C will pick a revision of the WHATWG's HTML spec and stamp it with a version number.
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Re:W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
by dragonwriter on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @05:40PM
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> The expectation is that every so often the W3C will pick a revision of the WHATWG's HTML spec and stamp it with a version number.
W3C HTML5 is not just a snapshot of a particular revision of the WHATWG Living Standard. In a reasonable world, W3C HTML5 (etc.) would be a subset of the WHATWG Living Standard on the date the former was published, but I'm not sure that even that is strictly the case.