How Did We Get Here? - Dive Into HTML5 with Mark Pilgrim - 1 views
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Gary Edwards on 20 Jan 11The history of HTML from it's earliest days to HTML5, by Mark Pilgrim. Wonderful stuff, beautifully written. Excellent introduction to the HTML5 category of Open Web technologies ( HTML5, CSS3, SVG, JavaScript and the Open WEB API's) excerpt quote: Implementations and specifications have to do a delicate dance together. You don't want implementations to happen before the specification is finished, because people start depending on the details of implementations and that constrains the specification. However, you also don't want the specification to be finished before there are implementations and author experience with those implementations, because you need the feedback. There is unavoidable tension here, but we just have to muddle on through.