Open Web Platform Milestone Achieved with HTML5 Recommendation

http://www.w3.org/2014/10/html5-rec.html.en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

28 October 2014 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published a Recommendation of HTML5, the fifth major revision of the format used to build Web pages and applications, and the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform.

Features and APIs:

• HTML Working Group – 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