Well, that's what everybody is hoping for, at least. The worst-case scenario is that the W3C HTML 5 working group goes wildly astray and writes a horrible stan

Well, that's what everybody is hoping for, at least. The worst-case scenario is that the W3C HTML 5 working group goes wildly astray and writes a horrible standard that nobody implements. Remember HTML 3.0? XHTML 2.0? SMILE 2.0? WS-*? Standards committees have a tendency to produce 300-page specs where every feature is both optional and vague. The recent OAuth2 rant describes the process perfectly: http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/ http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell... So the real fear here is that without Ian Hickson, the W3C may loose sight of the ball. Again. But in that case, I imagine the browser vendors will happily ignore them. Again.