HTML 5 Won’t Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022

haha i love the phony outrage by "jeff croft" in response:

"I care about right fucking now. My clients care about right fucking now. Our users care about right fucking now. "

wow, he really has his irish up! hey folks, don't piss off jeff croft! he has clients!

you have to hand it to jeff, it takes a big man to swing at a slow pitch over the plate. does he piss his pants over poverty or injustice? NO! but show him an obviously pointless-to-the-brink-of-trolling "due date" for html5 and LOOK OUT. you just got played jeff.

only thing funnier is scoble's new "get in your face" conference response method, when he hops off the table and goes directly to some dude and screams in his face. scoble, my wife could kick your fat ass

stuff the faux indignation and keep your panties on ladies, the next guy you try to rip your shirt off in front of might have been in the marines

I think as long as browsers start implementing HTML5 now, we could actually see widespread adoption by 2012-2013. Which is reasonable. But we'll always have IE slowing that adoption down ;).

Anyways, as long as there's a large enough backlash to this roadmap, I'm hoping the process can be sped up by at least a few years.

This title seems to be a complete beat up.

It says "it won't be ready until 2022", but then goes on to say the widespread adoption of final drafts is expected by 2012... It even mentions that the 2012 draft is by far the more important?

It doesn't even go into the reasons for 10 years between the final draft 2012 and the final proposal 2022... In the actual blog the substance seems to be that the 10 years is to provide additional robustness via test suites.

Whatever your view "won't be ready" seems extreme.

You've just gotta account for Internet Explorer, all the respectable browsers will have HTML5 support by 2012, while IE will trail behind and have support around 2022, along with all the changes they think is necessary. "Microsoft HTML™"

Maybe IE will be dead by then......hopefully....

CSS 2 was specified in 1998, and updated to be more realistic in 2005, and even today no browsers follow the standard to the letter - although both Gecko and Webkit admittedly both have a good go at it. Let's not forget that Hixie has seen this first hand maintaining the Acid tests. Having realism on how long standards take to be implemented completely doesn't mean that many of the added features aren't useful in the meantime.

I'll tell you a story kid, listen carefully...

Ten internet years is a very loooong time, just look back at 1998 and see how things have changed.

I tell you, one man will come with a new browser and a new markup language and kids like you everywhere will use it, 100 million downloads in a week will mark its arrival, you'll know it, wait patiently.

That's how you replace the web, and all old behemoths who tried to kill it will finally see it die a sudden death for good, and good thing is, they will die too for all the bad things they've done, we never forget.

And they won't have participation in the new web, we won't let them play. I swear by all gods we won't.

For we are legion...