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W3C to meet with developers on HTML 5

By Alex Handy

November 3, 2009 — (Page 1 of 2)
The W3C has a lot on its plate. The standards body that governs the development of CSS and HTML will meet Thursday with developers in Silicon Valley to discuss the future of the Web. Among the topics of discussion will be the HTML 5 specification, a future bereft of unused IPv4 addresses, and mobile widget application development.

Chief among the W3C's duties is its work on HTML 5. Philippe Le Hégaret, a member of multiple standards groups at the W3C, including the group working on HTML 5, said that markup language-cum-programming language should be ready by the end of 2010. By that time, he said he expects the major browsers to accommodate the specification.

There are still questions about Microsoft's Internet Explorer, however. Le Hégaret said that all the major browsers are on board with the HTML 5 process, and that Microsoft was registered to send five developers to this week's meetings. But at the same time, the Internet Explorer team has been slow to announce its intentions around some of the HTML 5 changes.

Specifically, Microsoft has not yet chosen a codec for use with the new video handling capabilities in HTML 5. The company has also dragged its feet in implementing the new scalable vector graphics capabilities introduced in HTML 5.

Complicating matters is the lack of cohesion on video codecs among the other browser makers, said Le Hégaret. “One of the goals of HTML 5 is to make sure all the browsers implement it correctly. Another big problem we are facing is with the HTML video element: Which video format should we use? Safari supports MPEG4; Mozilla is pushing for OGG Theora. Microsoft declared they will support the HTML 5 video element, but I dont think they support it yet.

"So far, we haven't been able to provide one video format everyone can agree on. I can design a page that works in both Safari and Firefox, but I would have to provide two video files: one OGG, one MPEG."

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