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Berners-Lee on HTML 5: If It's Not on the Web, It Doesn't Exist

posted by LaminatorX on Sunday November 02 2014, @04:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the ontology-fail dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

In a short interview with the San Jose Mercury News, Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, touts the W3C's HTML 5 standard, which was finally published last week after eight years of work. Sir Berners-Lee sees HTML 5 as advancing the Web as the central platform for delivering Internet content and applications, to mobile devices as well as PC users.

Q. How do you use the Web? Are there any sites or services that you use regularly?

A. We do all our work at the W3C on the Web — everything. We have a mantra: If it's not on the Web, it doesn't exist. When discussing things in a meeting, everything we do, the minutes of the meetings, it's always on the Web.

Some other quick takes on HTML 5 are here.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday November 02 2014, @12:47PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Sunday November 02 2014, @12:47PM (#112391) Homepage
    When will HTML5.1 come out? (or HTML6, whatever it's called that updates/replaces HTML5)

    If they really think they've created the be all and end all of web standards, then surely they can disband the committee and go home?
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  • (Score: 1) by Refugee from beyond on Sunday November 02 2014, @10:28PM

    by Refugee from beyond (2699) on Sunday November 02 2014, @10:28PM (#112491)

    Depends on who those "they" are. As HTML, as defined by WHATWG, is a living standard. W3C seems to have an idea of making snapshots, though.

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