Plan Html

Plan 2014

In September 2012, the W3C proposed a plan to release a stable HTML5 Recommendation by the end of 2014 and an HTML 5.1 specification Recommendation by the end of 2016.

Core HTML specification

The combined timelines for HTML 5.0, HTML 5.1 and HTML 5.2:

	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
HTML 5.0	Candidate Rec	Call for Review	Recommendation
HTML 5.1	1st Working Draft		Last Call	Candidate Rec	Recommendation
HTML 5.2				1st Working Draft

Features and APIs

The W3C proposed a greater reliance on modularity as a key part of the plan to make faster progress, meaning identifying specific features, either proposed or already existing in the spec, and advancing them as separate specifications. Some technologies that were originally defined in HTML5 itself are now defined in separate specifications:

• HTML Working Group – Microdata, HTML Canvas 2D Context
• Web Apps WG – Web Messaging, Web Workers, Web Storage, WebSocket API, Server-Sent Events
• IETF HyBi WG – WebSocket Protocol
• WebRTC WG – WebRTC
• W3C Web Media Text Tracks CG – WebVTT

Some specifications that were initially developed standalone have been adapted as HTML5 extensions or features by reference: SVG, MathML, WAI-ARIA.