HTML 5 Won't Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022.

If you’re a Web developer looking forward to the new tools in HTML 5, the next generation of the language that powers the Web, we have some bad news for you–you’re going to be waiting awhile.

Ian Hickson, the editor of the HTML 5 specification, recently outlined the timetable for HTML 5 and, even assuming browser manufacturers embrace HTML 5 when it reaches the final draft stage, that puts HTML 5′s widespread adoption at 2012. Worse, the final proposed recommendation won’t be released until 2022.

Yes, you read that right. 2022. Yes, that’s 13 years from now.

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