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

http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/HTML_5_Won_t_Be_Ready_Until_2022DOT_Yes__2022DOT

by reazalun • 18 years ago

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quasomojo• 18 years ago

haha i love the phony outrage by "jeff croft" in response:

"I care about right fucking now. My clients care about right fucking now. Our users care about right fucking now. "

wow, he really has his irish up! hey folks, don't piss off jeff croft! he has clients!

you have to hand it to jeff, it takes a big man to swing at a slow pitch over the plate. does he piss his pants over poverty or injustice? NO! but show him an obviously pointless-to-the-brink-of-trolling "due date" for html5 and LOOK OUT. you just got played jeff.

only thing funnier is scoble's new "get in your face" conference response method, when he hops off the table and goes directly to some dude and screams in his face. scoble, my wife could kick your fat ass

stuff the faux indignation and keep your panties on ladies, the next guy you try to rip your shirt off in front of might have been in the marines

evdawg• 18 years ago

I think as long as browsers start implementing HTML5 now, we could actually see widespread adoption by 2012-2013. Which is reasonable. But we'll always have IE slowing that adoption down ;).

Anyways, as long as there's a large enough backlash to this roadmap, I'm hoping the process can be sped up by at least a few years.

iigs• 18 years ago

Somebody should just make a HTML5 ActiveX control so we can all just get on with life.

After reading this:

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080819-mozilla-drags-...

I think the right solution for living with IE is just to use it as a vehicle for modern web experience plug-ins. Give people the chance to download the plug-ins when they visit your site and before too long enough sites are doing it that it's like java or flash, in that enough people have it that you can expect it to be there.

On the other hand downloading 234234234 plugins for IE is going to reduce the public's reservations about plugins and they'll end up with a lot more spyware and other network gremlins, but that's the fate they've chosen, I guess.

ks• 18 years ago

It would be cool if we could get a plugin that implements the Gecko/Webkit engine :-)

ashleyw• 18 years ago

You've just gotta account for Internet Explorer, all the respectable browsers will have HTML5 support by 2012, while IE will trail behind and have support around 2022, along with all the changes they think is necessary. "Microsoft HTML™"

Maybe IE will be dead by then......hopefully....

halo• 18 years ago

CSS 2 was specified in 1998, and updated to be more realistic in 2005, and even today no browsers follow the standard to the letter - although both Gecko and Webkit admittedly both have a good go at it. Let's not forget that Hixie has seen this first hand maintaining the Acid tests. Having realism on how long standards take to be implemented completely doesn't mean that many of the added features aren't useful in the meantime.

michaelmurphy• 18 years ago

Good point. Regardless of when HTML5's specs are nailed down, it will still be quite a long time before they're implemented in browsers. Instead of sensational posts, I'd like to see more developers working on useful tools we can use now, like BlueprintCSS.

jwilliams• 18 years ago

This title seems to be a complete beat up.

It says "it won't be ready until 2022", but then goes on to say the widespread adoption of final drafts is expected by 2012... It even mentions that the 2012 draft is by far the more important?

It doesn't even go into the reasons for 10 years between the final draft 2012 and the final proposal 2022... In the actual blog the substance seems to be that the 10 years is to provide additional robustness via test suites.

Whatever your view "won't be ready" seems extreme.

TweedHeads• 18 years ago

I'll tell you a story kid, listen carefully...

Ten internet years is a very loooong time, just look back at 1998 and see how things have changed.

I tell you, one man will come with a new browser and a new markup language and kids like you everywhere will use it, 100 million downloads in a week will mark its arrival, you'll know it, wait patiently.

That's how you replace the web, and all old behemoths who tried to kill it will finally see it die a sudden death for good, and good thing is, they will die too for all the bad things they've done, we never forget.

And they won't have participation in the new web, we won't let them play. I swear by all gods we won't.

For we are legion...

trezor• 18 years ago

Voted down for the legion reference.

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

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