8 Chapter 1—Overview of the New Web Standard
z Ian Hickson’s assessment of the workshop in three blog posts:
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1086387609&order=1&count=3
z Creation of the WHATWG is announced two days after the workshop:
http://www.whatwg.org/news/start
z Blog entry “Reinventing HTML” by Tim Berners-Lee (October 2006):
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/166
z Relaunch of the W3C HTML Working Group (March 2007):
http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-pressrelease
z Ian Hickson informs the WHATWG community of the relaunch: http://
lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/009887.html
z Official invitation to the WHATWG to sign up for the HTML WG: http://
lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-March/009908.html
z Ian Hickson congratulates the W3C on the initiative on behalf of the
WHATWG: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2007-
March/009909.html
z HTML Design Principles as basis of HTML5 (November 2007):
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/
z First official HTML5 Working Draft at W3C (January 2008):
http://www.w3.org/2008/02/html5-pressrelease
z Announcement that the XHTML2 Working Group will be disbanded (July
2009): http://www.w3.org/News/2009#entry-6601
z WHATWG declares HTML5 at Last Call (October 2009):
http://blog.whatwg.org/html5-at-last-call
z W3C publishes eight Working Drafts, two of them new (June 2010):
http://www.w3.org/News/2010#entry-8843
z W3C announces Timeline to Last Call, expecting to reach Last Call end of
May 2011 (September 2010):
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Sep/0074.html
z W3C Introduces an HTML5 Logo (January 2011), causing controversy:
http://www.w3.org/News/2011#entry-8992
z Ian Hickson declares that the WHATWG HTML specification will
henceforth just be known as “HTML” and can be considered a
“living standard” (January 2011):
http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5