W3C wants to finalize HTML 5 standard in 2014

It will probably take another three years before the HTML 5 standard is completely finished. The World Wide Web Consortium has announced that it is expected to take until July 2014 to ratify the web standard.

The W3C is planning to finalize the HTML 5 standard on its site published. The organization reports that it will be releasing the last call for html 5 on May 22 of this year, which means that feedback on the web standard can still be given until then.

After this date, the HTML Working Group will respond to all comments and presumably make various changes to the standard. The working group then starts a test program so that browser builders and web designers, among others, can work on HTML 5 compatibility. The W3C calls on all its members to submit relevant tests. The organization expects that the standard can finally be ratified in July 2014.

Although most browsers can already handle HTML 5, there are different implementations. It is therefore necessary to finalize the standard. Until recently, however, it was unclear how long the standardization process within the W3C would take.

Whether future HTML implementations will carry version numbers is still unclear. The Whatwg working group, the initiator of HTML 5, no longer wants to use version numbers, in order to make the markup language a ‘living standard’.