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> For example, work on HTML5 can be traced back as far as 2004, meaning that from inception to release, development took about a decade. For some more specific
by gsnedders 10y ago
> For example, work on HTML5 can be traced back as far as 2004, meaning that from inception to release, development took about a decade.
For some more specific reference points:
Web Applications 1.0, as it was then, first defined the parser some time between February 2006. It first shipped in a browser (as the normal HTML parser) in Chrome 7 in October 2010. The parser was in the latest release of every major browser with IE10 shipping in September 2012. In a sense, therefore, when it came to parsing it took under seven years.