Appearance of HTML5

Except Microsoft, other companies like Apple, Opera, Google and etc supported about realistic web standard that not making new standard like XHTML, but extending HTML with dynamic web service, and created WHATWG("Web Hypertext Application Technologies Working Group").

As time passes by, W3C also accepted WHATWG at 2007 and officially, began working group and called "HTML5" from web application 1.0. At the same time, destroy the development of XHTML2.


1989 - Tim Berners Lee created HTML concept-----------------------

1994 - Begin W3C1995 - Suggest HTML2 ---------------------------

1997 - Suggest HTML3.2, HTML41998 - Start web standard progect--------

2000 - Suggest XHTML1 -----------------------------------------

2004 - Start WHATWG-------------------------------------------

2007 - Start HTML working group by W3C-----------------------------

2008 - Announce HTML5------------------------------------------

2009 - End XHTML2 working group by W3C ----------------------------

2014 -announce the proposal of recommendation for HTML5----------------

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