Brief History of HTML, A

HTML5 is scheduled to enter Last Call Working Draft status in October 2009, next month. While that's not really the end of work, it's close enough that introductory articles on HTML5 are popping up all over the place. Beyond the technical details, these articles have a different tone than the previous round of introductory markup articles, when XHTML was the new hot. Where XHTML was presented as new with a reason (extensibility), HTML5 is offered as just new.