HTML Progresses with Eight Drafts; Two New
The HTML Working Group published eight documents:
- Updated Working Drafts of the HTML5 specification, the accompanying explanatory document HTML5 differences from HTML4, and the related non-normative reference HTML: The Markup Language.
- Updated Working Drafts of the specifications HTML+RDFa 1.1 and HTML Microdata, which define mechanisms for embedding machine-readable data in HTML documents, and the specification HTML Canvas 2D Context, which defines a 2D immediate-mode graphics API for use with the HTML5 <canvas> element.
- New! HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives, a First Public Working Draft which is intended to help authors provide useful text alternatives for images in HTML documents.
- New! Polyglot Markup: HTML-Compatible XHTML Documents, a First Public Working Draft which is intended to help authors produce XHTML documents that are also compatible with non-XML HTML syntax and parsing rules.
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