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To-do list for HTML5:  ·  history ·  watch ·  refresh · Updated 2019-12-25 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Clarify what HTML5 is and what it means to most people. Cleanup : HTML5 is now uncontroversially a historical standard and not the HTML living standard

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The section "Distinction between W3C's HTML5 and WHATWG's HTML" contains personal names and looks very aggressive. Please, refactor it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:1458:204:1:0:0:101:E1AC ( talk) 12:04, 2 October 2018 (UTC) reply

The to-do list above includes "Cleanup : Distinction between W3C's HTML5 and WHATWG's HTML". Has this item been accomplished by the addition of the table in the new section Differences between the two standards? Ennex2 ( talk) 01:31, 19 September 2018 (UTC) reply

I have now removed that item from the to-do list. Ennex2 ( talk) 00:25, 9 October 2018 (UTC) reply

@ Ennex2: Thanks. I did much of that cleanup job, but wasn't aware of the to-do list.  —  SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  11:45, 9 November 2018 (UTC) reply

I've put a similar TODO back up. This article seems confused about whether it's topic is HTML5 or the HTML living standard. Metaquanta ( talk) 07:29, 25 December 2019 (UTC) reply

"HTML5 is a software solution stack that defines the properties and behaviors of web page content by implementing a markup based pattern to it."

So we have a stack implementing a pattern to content, thereby defining properties and behaviors of content.

I am mystified. Surely this can be stated more clearly, perhaps without the buzzy word "solution". -- FIPAR ( talk) 21:25, 14 November 2019 (UTC) reply

It's really bad and didn't use to be. You should find the most recent clearer version and put it back. Metaquanta ( talk) 07:31, 25 December 2019 (UTC) reply

Done. Restored the version that preceded this: [1]. Metaquanta ( talk) 05:15, 21 March 2020 (UTC) reply

This sentence says the recommendation was retired: "The W3C recommendation of HTML5 was retired[.]" Was the recommendation retired or was HTML5 retired? Timhowardriley ( talk) 16:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC) reply