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Isn't html5 supposed to be a living standard [1], meaning continuous updates and no html:next spec? [1] https://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What_does_.22Living_St

• jfmercer 12y ago
  Yes.
• cletusw 12y ago
  You have to differentiate between the WHATWG and the W3C, which have different goals/purposes and different HTML specs. As the link you referenced states, the WHATWG's non-versioned living standard attempts to stay "a little ahead of the implementations" with the goal of (hopefully) guiding implementors toward common goals. The W3C periodically looks at already-implemented features and creates versioned snapshots (like HTML5, HTML5.1, etc.) with the goal of providing developers with a stable, known set of features for development. Different purposes, different specs, both useful.