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Michael(tm) Smith: HTML5 at Web Directions South 2008
The document discusses the history and development of HTML5. It notes that work began in the late 1990s and early 2000s to develop new web technologies, as HTML4 was over 10 years old. This led to specs like XHTML2 but also projects outside the W3C like Web Forms 2 and WHATWG, driven by browser makers. WHATWG was influential in developing many HTML5 features. The HTML5 spec was launched by the W3C in 2007, and defines features for embedding video/audio, canvas drawing, offline web apps, and more in a browser-independent way.
