"The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction. HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and publishers seeking new techniques to provide enhanced functionality are being held back by the constraints of the language and browsers. To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics."
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Member since:2005-12-02
""any key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft...""
I did see that. These same "key players" also worked on the other versions of HTML, as well as the CSS standard. I am hoping they follow through and make their browsers compliant. Well, 3 of those 4 are...and IE7 is better than IE6. 
Edit: corrected typo and some of the grammar.
Edited 2007-12-04 21:43
Member since:2005-07-05
I can't fathom how Microsoft can put so much time and effort into IE 7 and still get so many things wrong. It's much better than IE 6, which as a web developer, I finally just quit supporting because the level of suck was just too great, but still...
I look forward with great excitement to things like HTML5 and CSS3, but somehow I think the majority (read IE users) of the web won't benefit from them for a long, long, long, long time.
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2005-07-13
"any key players are participating in the W3C effort including representatives from the four major browser vendors: Apple, Mozilla, Opera, and Microsoft..."
they are indeed. this looks like it will be the overhall that is indeed badly needed. i look farward to it with open arms.