Why does it take so long to finalize the HTML 5 spec?
- by EpsilonVector
I was reading this and one sentence caught my eye (emphasis mine):
So Ian Hickson, XHTML’s biggest critic, fathered HTML 5, an action-oriented toddler specification that won’t reach adulthood until 2022, although some of it can be used today.
Is that true? Is that really the HTML 5 development cycle? Why is it taking so long? What makes it so difficult to get right that it won't be final until 11 years from now?