NO

Only 4314 days to go.

n00b slayer said:
No. You can't.
Junior said:
I can haz HTML5
J Cornelius said:
Seriously. View source people.
Kabayo said:
This site is on HTML5...
Milho said:
Well... the world will end at 21 Dec 2012... so why bother?
Paullette said:
Ah, it's great being backwards when coming forwards.
M Olsson said:
Not really no, a draft may be done but not the real deal. If the real deal was done people would be so much more forward to using it...
recep ivedik said:
Surpriseeeee!!! It's ready...
Hi said:
"ECMAScript 3.1" sucks ass. So have fun in your HTML 5 sandbox.
noname said:
why it's so long?
james braselton said:
hi there why cant we use dull webrowsers and dull html5 and quicktime video players useing duo core cpus thats not impossibale with new computer cpus power ram and storage capacity it possibale
Thomas Broyer said:
RT @diveintomark: you realize that 2022 is the target for 2 complete interoperable implementations, right? By that definition, HTML4 isn't ready yet.

See http://twitter.com/diveintomark/status/8988244339
Comments counter said:
We just need more 4340 (unique) comments to reach a break through.
Brendan said:
That's not much of a Turing Test...
whiteliquid said:
4341 days left.
Isaac said:
Bummer. 4343 days left. Long time, no see.
Vikram said:
It would be great to email all these folks back and let them know the that the spec is ready. ROCK THEIR MIND MAN!

P.S. I am not a robot. I put in zero, your machine failed the test.

P.P.S. OK, okay. Nosey aren't we.
Brett said:
Well, crap. That's like saying "I'll give you a check for $5,000 - but it's not good until 2022!" :)
Hmm said:
But... why? Is some guy on a coffee break or something?
arbly said:
Really!? o.O
Vivek Rp said:
How Should I Convert My Existing HTML Sites To HTML 5 Sites?
Carlos Pacheco said:
Well, I guess I shall begin coding RDF/Turtle then!
Marc said:
I hate not having flash or HTML5. Damn you Steve!!!
Julian said:
wow, not like thats another 12 years or anything...
Ali Nakipoglu said:
Looks like after moving human kind to Mars Planet they can use HTML5 :D
Steve said:
Wow, i think i'll put myself in cryo sleep. There's no way i can wait over a decade.
stefani said:
参赞天地之化育 ???
balu.ertl said:
I couldn't wait for this date -- but suppose should.
Patrick said:
Lots of time for Mozilla to get ready then ;)
Arzt said:
Still waiting for HTML5 at <a href="http://www.info-aerzte.de">Arzt</a> Info.
N F said:
My feet are getting wet, if i walk without shoes, but drink i shall not.
Yeah said:
its gona be a plant we put in our brain and will always be connected to the Internet.
haK said:
Long timee....
Screamest said:
This is dumb so 11 years until html5 comes out? We wont even be using browsers by the time its ready!
Luke Price said:
CTRL + U really don't get the irony?

Geek t shirts that you'd actually wear over at http://returnvoid.co.uk
vreny said:
still soooooo long.........
Andrew said:
... and 629 days until IPv4 runs out. Why does life revolve around countdowns?
onehundredandtwo said:
Google's using it, so I don't see any reason why I can't... :)
Bobbie said:
4376 bottles of beer on the wall, 4376 bottles of beeerrrrr.... tee hee
Germain LECOURTOIS said:
The futur is near ... Flash 4 Life
Michael said:
Yes, HTML5 is ready!
ravi said:
oooooooooh man thts one damn long time
aa said:
2012 is the end of our earth
sheak said:
I'm waiting for that day!
hcys said:
so long! I think I'm not a web designer that day!
jessica said:
oh my god!so long time.
Weakow Wang said:
I cannot wait until it dies itself.
Alessandro said:
mmmm, para ese entonces el planeta estara inabitable jejejeje
Rishi said:
Can't wait to see more HTML5 and CSS3 3D effect-compatible browsers out there.
Dragun said:
Yaaaay :D Can't wait...
digitron said:
So it's true. HTML 5 will finish itself.
Oliver said:
Ohh noows.. that's like 380 505 600 seconds.. :(
Rechung online schreiben said:
What is it? I do not now.
Cartman said:
I can't wait that long ...

I got it, I'll freeze myself until 2022. Don't forget to unfreeze me then!
SiteOne Web Design said:
Like Karma HTLM 5 will find its balance in the nature of Web Design!!!

Deep Man...
Alex said:
waiting...
boutique arte angels said:
last so many time!
stadt waldkraiburg said:
I´m waiting for that along time yet. I hope for better features.
Meaty said:
I love it!!!!!!!

I can't for HTML 5 so i can enhance my website!!! NO NEED FOR FLASH!!!!!
stöpsl said:
still 4412 days to go... pretty long...
Chris said:
Wow... what a long time!
Ross Mason said:
Damn it I can't wait that long! I know we are getting bits and bobs of HTML 5 support from different vendors already but come on 4413 days! You are having a laugh!
davecc said:
Well, that's quite ridiculous,we should have HTML25 by then...
Mundgeruch said:
I wonder if it will still be called HTML by then...
Angelreisen said:
That's a ridiculous amount of time. It could easily be outdated by the time it is released.
Adam Shannon said:
Well, we can hope for 4416 to be truncated a bit. Maybe 44.16 days?
.:Bunnylicious:. said:
Dang!! x] Go go go!!
Piaume said:
Not ready yes, but quite active :

"The dl element is inappropriate for marking up dialogue. Examples of how to mark up dialogue are shown below."

Update your code ! :p
Desiny said:
Did I blink and miss v5 ?!?
Mike said:
Hurra....Only 4424 days to go.
Sebastian said:
phew ... what a long time
Michael Reichel said:
Can't wait...
kjell said:
sigh... Anybody else viewed the page source and realized this is a satire? Judging from the comments, I guess not.
M.Stoelken said:
HTML5 I'm waaaaaaiting ...
Greg said:
Are we there yet? '"
Kosmetik said:
Interesting... Ready for more informations.
Earnup said:
What happens? I am interesting in more informations. Interesting site...
Greg said:
Aw so far away, but given the work on it, seems accurate. lol
Davide said:
HTML5 <3
zlostman said:
I'm waiting HTML 5
Acompanhantes SP said:
<audio>Listen to that: HTML5</video>

<video>Watch this: HTML5</video>

WEB 2.0 + HTML5 = interaction + multimedia + collaboration + + speed + diversity!
Rob said:
Can't wait haha ... The greatest joy is the joy of anticipation ...
steffi Reiseversicherung said:
no comment!!
pepijn said:
wel the estimation at the moment does not stand at 22 years, i just read. that the recomended version should be released somewhere this time next year.
which sounds more logical, since the new Google Wave thingie is already being built on HTML 5.0
and since there there is a small test group already working with Google Wave... this would mean.. 1 year is way more realistic then 22 years
source: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/
Donald said:
Holy Crap dude - that can't be right? I'll be about 40 (I'm 27 now!) LOL!
Alleinunterhalter said:
I cant wait for this to be released.
stand said:
I'm still waiting for Typography
thomas said:
HTML5 at Last Call; apparently it won't take that long anymore...
Gavin said:
I'm still waiting for Typography 1.0
Kevin Keene said:
HTML 5 - The "Duke Nukem Forever" of markup languages.
Crim said:
WTF 12 years?
Tygas said:
I offering everybody to add oldbrowsers_sucks.js which display error message for lammers
Mona said:
Yes, it is ready. The internet is a sandbox and should be open to experiment with. There is always room for innovation. It is better to have many different routes that will lead to the same destination. This expands the capabilities of the web and of technology in general. And I fucking hate Microsoft. Maybe that has a lot to do with it too. GO GOOGLE!
Austin said:
Just give Microsoft an extra 4896 days on top of that, then it'll be usable! :%
Daniele Pignedoli said:
...will the web and the browsers still exists in 2022?!
no said:
That's a long time.
Peter said:
just seen this html5 video on youtube http://www.youtube.com/html5
Oliver said:
Ohh noows.. that's like 385 689 600 seconds.. :(
Eran said:
NO

Only 4466 days to go
jscriptive said:
...it would make some nice technologies obsolete... but hey - aren't we always ready to learn something new?
Phil said:
A bigger issue than how many days left is the impact. HTML 5 threatens to change the way we make RIA (e.g Flash and Silverlight) and how we use HTML (no longer just for formatting text.) It may be prolong and nasty war to get Software Engineers to embrace it.
pfefferspray said:
very cool, i like it.
Shimon said:
I believe we will see wide usage of HTML5 within next year or two, which is less than 1000 days from now.
rolladenchrank said:
Damn it i can´t wait any longer ^^
Thomas Broyer said:
And of course, no one here did a "view source" to find out that this page *is* HTML5 (well, used to, given that the "dialog" element has just been removed)
Harald said:
They should really consider shortening that down!

I understand that they want it get done right but 12 years is way overkill. 4-7 years would be acceptable.

Hope they rethink that a little.
Johnny said:
Usually everything happens really quickly on the web. 12 years is way too long to have it finished for imo.
Immobilienmakler said:
12 Years ? crazy...
Spanien Auswanderer said:
and the next one will appear soon again
Why is my computer slow said:
Damn thats aaaaages!
Ngan hang said:
very cool, i like it.
Tonka said:
Bugger that! I'm gonna learn SGML instead.
ausland said:
so far away
Haarentfernung said:
I don't care! I'm using it anyway!
Kanu dialani said:
4481 days!! wow.
I bet by then we will be reading our emails using on our sunglasses. Cars will have digital windshields with build in GPS and would highlight the route from the drivers viewing angle. Rent in Manhattan will be around $20,000/month for a studio apartment. And of course we will be using HTML 5 !!!!!
tan said:
Only 4481 days to go. --!
Hans said:
Only 4484 days left, we are almost there :D
Mohammad Reza Pazooki said:
I'm waiting for that :D

come ..come ..come
Nepali Forum said:
Wow, i will be waiting eagerly for the release. 4491 days are actually more...Do fast !!
Kris said:
Really, they need to have something really chrome browser
hersteller said:
what a day in xxxx day´s
würzburger said:
I thing it is only 4493 days left ;-)
Oliver said:
Ohh noows.. that's like 388 454 400 seconds.. :(
Michael Schultz said:
Looking forward to HTML5 - with that amount of time, who knows? They might just have a lot more cool features by then :)

Browsers will be forced to update to HTML5's standards or be cast aside.

I hear you scream "WHAT ABOUT IE6!? It is still not being "cast aside" today despite it's disabilities!" - Well, unlike IE6 and that whole scenario, HTML5 entails a much higher change that coders (hopefully) will all be forced to use.

If the above is true, then all of the web will change, and browsers will have to change with the coding - or be replaced by browsers that are (relatively) better.
Abdelrahman Osama Abdelwahab said:
It's brilliant, I can't wait to use it.
I'm just thinking how will it be rendered on old unsupported browsrers, is it backward-compatible.
auslandskrankenversicherung said:
what a day, less den 4500
reisekrankenversicherung said:
The countdown is running, now less than 4500 days
HTML tutorial said:
Nice site!! and as for the amount of days to go before HTML 5 becomes valid WOW, i thought it was so much sooner than that. me starts counting now
verpflichtungserklärung said:
only 4500 Days, nearly nothing
reiserücktrittsversicherung said:
Wait, and SEE.
GReeeetings from Germayn
Thomas Scholz said:
So we have to use frames and tables and target and marginwidth until 2022?
transportadora said:
That´s a long way...
I can´t take myself!!
Ryan Westfall said:
The real question is, when HTML5 is ready, how many browsers will fully support it? Sadly, it isn't about having a recommendation completed. It's about convincing browser developers to implement that recommendation.
Tristan said:
I really think there's only 3500 days left :).
Gav said:
I love it ;D
Me said:
I'm using it!
Otimização de Sites said:
Great!
I can´t wait for it... and waht about HTML6??
bjorn said:
:-) you're now the number one result in google for "html5 date".

I was actually searching for the proper way to code dates in HTML5, here it is:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#the-time-element
Sunil Shrestha said:
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>Welcome HTML5</title>
</head>
<body>

<header>
<h1>my first HTML5</h1>
</header>
<section>
<header>
<h2>Sunil Shrestha</h2>
</header>
<p>I'm waiting HTML 5</p>
</section>

</body>
</html>
Zen Savona said:
imo it will be more of a hindrance than anything else...

it has some nice features but will be a headache to implement.
alert! said:
<script>
alert('hi');
</script>
Daniel Wong said:
I found this page while doing a Google search for "is html5 relevant?". I think I found my answer. Honestly, this seems totally pointless.

At one point, HTML may have been under-standardized, but once HTML5 arrives, I believe it will be overstandardized (look at what you made me do: I had to invent a word just for this occasion). Just look at HTML4. It's been around forever, yet a huge proportion of people use browsers that implement it quite poorly. The problem isn't that HTML doesn't have enough wiz-bang features; it's that it takes _forever_ (even longer than to produce a standard) to get people to upgrade their browsers.

For developers, HTML5 will just bring more interoperability headaches during the transition period, assuming we even feel compelled enough to move en masse to the new std. It's not like HTML4-only browsers are going to disappear overnight once HTML5 reaches "Recommendation" status.

Think about how hard it is to write applications today that work well on all browsers. For the most part, different browsers behave alike, but it really doesn't matter if 95% of your site works for IE6 users; they expect 100% of it to work. If users can't accomplish what they came to do, they'll simply leave; therefore, developers have to find ways to accommodate users' antiquated software. Another standard will only add to the mess.

The problem isn't that we don't have enough standards; it's that we don't have enough compliance to existing standards. HTML5 will only make hitting the target more difficult by setting it on a moving platform.
Chris said:
I don't care! I'm using it anyway!
Web development and design Preston said:
I can't wait to throw away these dusty old div tags. So unsemantic it makes me feel sick!
Luke Price said:
That's funny, because I am using it today... maybe that time machine did work after all.
Gazzer said:
Unfortunately this is wrong. This is the date that at least 2 browsers will support the whole spec.

By the same definition CSS2.1 still isn't ready but I suspect there are a few sites out there that use it.

October 2009 is the last call for the working draft and that's a few months away.
Jay said:
Hurry Up Please.
Jay said:
Hurry Up Please.
Como Emagrecer said:
I can´t wait... but perhaps i´ll not alive until there..:-(
Mike said:
It's ready now.
Gilberto Ramos said:
hello world
Marketing Blog said:
Fantastic, I think Html 5 will help us developers building great sites!
Mr.MoOx said:
This is stupid. Html 5 is already here.
Webdesign Bonn said:
how many minutes.. seconds?
Vin said:
I can't wait any longer.
Chris said:
Ask the doctor:

http://html5doctor.com/2022-or-when-will-html-5-be-ready/
reiseversicherung said:
long time, GREETING FROM GERMANY!
Volkan Karakuş said:
Year 2022? i can't believe it!
The Truth said:
HTML 5 is done somewhere in 2022.. And its not made by microsoft every shit fucking dish who thinks that should read the news. Not everything is made by microsoft. if that was true everything was BSOD. even HTML 5 would have a BSOD then Lol. seriously.. Microsoft only makes a few good things..
DragonDrop said:
Hurry up.. I need a wee.
jimmytofu said:
It was ready last week... but my dog ate it. Sorry guys.
charles said:
yeah just let microsoft take care of designing html5 that will require a bunch of licences that will make it usable only in ie version 42.5

Buddah said:
OH LOL
Max Reimer said:
why is it so long? thats like err 10 years away or something?
Andy Brice said:
I'm going to start using it anyway – immediately and fully (unless someone is paying me to do otherwise).

If we all did the same, Internet Explorer would die out very quickly.
RIA Commander said:
You folks sound like some earthlinks must have sounded when it was discovered that earth was not flat.

Forget about being stuck in some flat stone ages and jump onto the RIA sphere because it is already here.
Me said:
Hey! the counter is static!
Richard said:
HTML5 may be ready now but many of my clients, and much of thier audience, are not ready to give up IE6 anytime soon.
John said:
I'm really looking forward to this as i really dislike flash and silverlight et al. However, it will just be plagued by browser inconsistencies like everything else that's any good for the web.
Veyton Templates said:
thats a cool flame about html5 :-) , love it !
Peter said:
NO! its true :( http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#When_will_HTML_5_be_finished.3F

It is estimated by the editor that HTML5 will reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012.
my name said:
this is FAKE. it will be released in 30 Fev.
Phil said:
Lime Entertainment *wants* HTML5.
Joe Spurling said:
But i want it now....
Gustavs said:
Yes, it is.
henrrrik said:
If we all agree that it's ready now, it's ready now.
yaph said:
Considering differing browser implementations of the various HTML standards is any HTML version ready yet?
mortendk said:
my gfs comment... " i coudnt care less"
well dosnt that kinda sums it up ;)

Matt said:
Holy cow. I can't wait.
Fred said:
:( were all going to die before 2022/html5 comes out :'(

we need to stick with the crappy HTML4 that was made somewhere in 1999 :(
<h1>Fred waits for html5 to come out</h1>
Boris said:
Yes. Yes it is ready.
Adam Martinez said:
Isn't the world supposed to end in 2012 anyway? ;)
Phantom said:
OH MY GOD
Yorick Peterse said:
Wow, 2022...That feels like tomorrow :D
Alex Crooks said:
That sucks!
Aaron said:
2022? 13 years now... Why so long.. :( who made HTML anyway? lol who made the internet who made XHTML?
digilime said:
...and 7 days before it is scheduled to become an official W3C recommendation it will get dropped, and in it's place will rise XHTML 2.0... er hang on a minute...
digilime said:
...and 7 days before it is scheduled to become an official W3C recommendation it will get dropped, and in it's place will rise XHTML 2.0... er hang on a minute...
Seth said:
cool... more then 10 years it`s not so much... my child will love html5 :D
Seth said:
cool... more then 10 years it`s not so much... my child will love html5 :D
homeowner loans said:
rofl is this the whole site?

not being an ass btw
debt help said:
nah, surely it'll only be a couple of years at most
derek hosewood said:
why is it so long? thats like err 10 years away or something?

just a joke then?
payday loans said:
why is it so long? thats like err 10 years away or something?

just a joke then?
payday loans said:
why is it so long? thats like err 10 years away or something?
Vagina said:
Awww, too long :(
Erwin said:
Wow. This wasn't the answer I was looking for...
hak said:
This must be joke...
Macumba said:
This is a joke right? How come we will have to use something that was invented in 1999 (HTML 4.01) for 12 more years!?! Who came up with this ETA?
Justananomaly said:
I will use this time trying to finally beat my rubiks cube :)
LiTTLE MiSS said:
12 years..wtf Ill be 26 by then!!
Matthew Wallace said:
We have Flash today!
zedia.net said:
Who cares; ain't the world suppose to end in 2012?
Matheew said:
HTML5 must force <audio> and <video> whenever bworsers support it or not. Simplycity is the way to go.
Matheew said:
HTML5 must force <audio> and <video> whenever bworsers support it or not. Simplycity is the way to go.
Dave said:
Actually, IE8 shows promise in terms of HTML5 support. But yeah, you never know with them.
Andy said:
Wouldn't be suprised if IE f**k it up like everything else...
Dino Baskovic said:
Note to W3C: I hear FUML looks promising...
Ricardo Zea said:
July 7 - 2009 » "Only 4560 days to go."

¬¬ ... Seriously.
love compatibility said:
That's a ridiculous amount of time. It could easily be outdated by the time it is released.
Z Fern said:
Nice to know that the world will never live to see HTML5... *sigh*
daniel said:
You got be kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No said:
No, it's not ready yet. Don't make me turn this specification around and drive it right back into HTML4.
elliot said:
no matter how simple you make it, my man in India will still bollocks it up
Benjamin Reid said:
When HTML5 is released, I hope it doesn't put us web people out of a job, as it seems like anyone could pick it up and learn it very fast!
Jim Westergren said:
Well I believe it will be in big use only 1-2 years from now.
gfh said:
fgh
Ny hemsida said:
Oh, twelve years goes so fast when you're having fun coding.
Mateusz said:
bullshit! html5 will be ready this year; year 2022 is the moment when at least two browsers will have full html5 support
buzzzer said:
HTML5, the final frontier. Endless. Silent. Waiting. This is the story of the W3C. Its mission: a multi-year patrol of the internet. To seek out and contact all alien browsers. To explore. To travel the vast net, where no man has gone before.
joelwallis said:
Hi, i came from the future. And yes, the HTML5 is the solution of your problems, but...

The World will be destroyed in 2021!!
Quakeulf said:
Hey, I heard the new CSS64.57(X)-DSL release candidate beta is promising. :3
Mark said:
Hello. I am from the future. You had all better stop laughing at this. HTML 5 is the brains of the Internets. Now, bow down to it (esp. you, Jeff Croft).
anshul agrawal said:
i need to rework my schedule!!
Martin Ongtangco said:
In the future, HTML will be replaced by XAML.
Pavel said:
We'll sort out what to do with it in our spaceships.
Mark(poland) said:
What the.. f...?! I will be married then! God... I will graduate... Can't be! HTML5, i don't like you anymore! ;(
W3C is just kidding... i hope...
TroPtyN said:
No i pogadali...

Pozdrawiam mamę, tatę i czytelników Dobrychprogramów.pl :DD
Stephen Fairbanks said:
I'm really looking forward to HTML 5, but I might be dead before then.

(the link below now works).
Stephen Fairbanks said:
I'm really looking forward to HTML 5, but I might be dead before then.
Paulo Cesar said:
Can't be... I can't wait till 2022 for my HTML 5 awesomeness awesome website
Nax Sailer said:
The 2022 date is for when we will have two completely bug-free and interoperable implementations of the entire spec, which is something that we've never had for any major Web spec since the start of the Web. It's a very audacious goal, and actually achiev
Nax Sailer said:
The 2022 date is for when we will have two completely bug-free and interoperable implementations of the entire spec, which is something that we've never had for any major Web spec since the start of the Web. It's a very audacious goal, and actually achiev
Webhosting said:
ja, sehr interessant das ganze hier. Freue mich immer wieder hier zu sein.
Webdesign said:
congratulation for this homepage
NavinS said:
suits as a remainder :)
Seo Company said:
CSS3 is good for me, but sometime this will provide error when we validate page via W3C validator.
Manny Pacquiao said:
I'm just happy to see a update, finally!
Webhoster said:
So far I've been very disappointed with the HTML5 spec. They're just replacing common DIV names to official elements. Would much rather see XHTML 2.0 released or, even better, CSS3 adoption.
Jane said:
This si Html 4.01 transitional, damn sure.

Jane
Webhoster said:
I think also
Jordan Clark said:
2022? Cancer will be cured; cars will fly; CSS 2.1 will be fully supported by all browsers (okay, I might be being a little <em>too</em> optimistic now…)

I can't wait!
Seo said:
Really, they need to have something really
Seo said:
Really, they need to have something really
Seo said:
Really, they need to have something really
Sharanyan said:
Really Need Html5, With W3C validation Guidelines!

Regards,
Sharanyan
topcweb said:
Seems like quite a long time. Hopefully this is not accurate.
Ryan said:
<p>
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10-blue"
alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88" /></a>
</p>
Haiku said:
Wer bitte braucht HTML5 ???
Hannes said:
Nukular. Das Wort heisst Nukular.
GayLord said:
ihr seid alle gay
Emanuel Kluge said:
nur noch 4624 tage, ich bin schon voller vorfreude.
Sven Fischer said:
Hauptsache CSS läuft auf allen Browsern.
Carsten said:
WOZU html5 ? ;-))
Content Management Expert said:
Who needs HTML5? ;-)
Abdallah Meckki said:
Ok ..ok ..I'll start to use it ..When I'm Dead
coskunlar vinc said:
Nah, I wait for version 6.

coskunlar vinc said:
Nah, I wait for version 6.

Felipe said:
Porra! Que demora, vai se fude!
Arun Pattnaik said:
Whoa! that's 12 years! probably windows 9 would have been launched by then ;)
Arun Pattnaik said:
Whoa! that's 12 years! probably windows 9 would have been launched by then ;)
tGDA said:
is it 2022/01/01 or 2022/12/31?
like it makes any difference now : )
Roel G said:
Nah, I wait for version 6.
John The Creative said:
long. too long. we should leave the five with its killing terms, skip it and proceed with the six starting tomorrow.
developbyte said:
html css js and other
very fanny
=) go
tadatuta said:
is css3 ready yet?
Zul Azman said:
Wow! That's a long way to go..
Tim Wright said:
So far I've been very disappointed with the HTML5 spec. They're just replacing common DIV names to official elements. Would much rather see XHTML 2.0 released or, even better, CSS3 adoption.
Jay Robinson said:
I'll set a reminder in iCal.
HTML5 said:
WOW!! Why so long?
The Web Squeeze said:
WOW! Talk about a long time away! Can't wait!
Josh Pyles said:
Talk about some serious job security!
Luke Dorny said:
Back to the future yet?
Dilip Shukla said:
This one not earlier one http://blog.sourcebits.com/seperation-of-web
Dilip Shukla said:
Nice article on this fact
http://blog.sourcebits.com/war-of-the-worlds
Dilip Shukla said:
WOW ! I hope till then developers will prove HTML5 is all buggy, impractical, insane etc....plus some wish-list. One more website will be counting IsHTML6Ready? Answer: No. Make your own man don't bother.
Tim Dorr said:
2022? Don't they know the apocalypse is 10 years before that? No one will be left to enjoy it!
Dennison Uy said:
Whoever set the 2022 target date sure does have a weird sense of humor.
user_name said:
Nice. Some of us will certainly be dead by then.
NJ Web Guy said:
Wow, it seems like just yesterday we were designing our web sites with tables, and tomorrow it will be HTML5.
Jose said:
Almost there now. :P
John said:
We will be to old to bother then. I don't even want to count how many years I'll have in 2022...

Dan said:
I'd rather play with CSS3 anyway...
Trevor Pierce said:
I'd like to think HTML5 and microformats could be implemented today, across the board--with no hacks--but I don't see it happening. For anything but personal or experimental sites it's a non-starter.
Nethitters said:
Or at the very least, this site should use a valid doctype
Aleksey said:
This website needs to be rewritten in HTML 5. :)
Q5 Webdesign said:
4726 days, aahhhh please hurry!
Gekon said:
Fuck, nobody's gonna read this comment, coz' it's way too much deep:-)
Kohout said:
Can't wait :)
qingbo said:
Fine. Wish I won't die before that day.
J.Knesl said:
I'm looking forward for usable support in major browsers.
Woud Hobbelink said:
Still counting...
film indir said:
i am waiting html 5 i hope good work
Tobias Otte said:
HTML 5 in action http://atag.accessiblemedia.at/
Andrei Eftimie said:
all we need is a hour/minute/second counter underneath the day counter

i want to stare at it!
Jens Meiert said:
With the 4735 days currently to go, that statement still sounds both sadistic and masochistic. It’s probably not a bad idea to point out that some parts of HTML 5 can already be used ;)
Matthias said:
Way to go!
orta said:
Croc's right, it's here. You can even get IE6 to join in the fun witha bit of a push (read the source code to my site if you want to see) http://www.ortatherox.com
bigCat said:
I wish IE6 die at that moment
yea,It sound sweet
zezeze
standardista said:
HTML5 is cluttered and bare.
neyazsak said:
oh my god.Why????
Richard Heyes said:
Yes - I've created a graphing library around the canvas tag:

http://www.rgraph.org
Daniel said:
Seeing how we're still struggling with browsers like IE6, I don't really put much effort into worrying about when HTML5 will be ready for the REAL world
Kroc Camen said:
YES.

See http://camendesign.com
wet said:
Standardization takes ages, that's the very nature of it. I dearly like the fact that the underpinnings of the web grow better and better each day while we continue to build the mesh.
SneakyWho_am_i said:
It's going to take so long to be ready (1 - 4 years from now) because it's doing everything right that was glossed over in HTML4.01 - not that HTML4.01 wasn't brilliant, I couldn't have done any better..

But yes, this time it'll be done RIGHT.

We will be able to use it all by then same as we can use CSS2.1 now. Opera and/or Apple and/or Mozilla will have a browser that supports it 100% by 2022 (which will take a fantastic effort)
Nat said:
It's so easy to ridicule the enonormous effort Hixie et al. put into the standard editing. I value their work beyond any measure.
Robert said:
Why don't we just skip HTML 5 at all and proceed striaght to HTML 6 instead? May it'll make things easier...
SneakyWho_am_i said:
lol!! :D This is great! If I may speak.. I think html 5 is ready now for personal/intranet websites. A bit of unobtrusive javascript nicely tidies up forms, and IE6 (in which it is near impossible to disable "JScript") can be made with one or two short lines of javascript to even apply the appropriate styles to HTML5 elements! :D

What I'm hanging out for is the sample/example stylesheet to go with them, as I'm making an unhealthy number of assumptions about what the new elements will look like.

Yes, irresponsible perhaps to code for a moving target but I'm writing HTML 5 now, I needed it two years ago.

It would pay to remember that 2022 is the estimated date for when browsers will be ready for HTML5, not the date for when HTML5 itself will be ready for use.
For comparison, no browser has completely implemented HTML 4.01 yet, or any flavour of XHTML - even though those specifications were penned over a decade ago.
Bhai Joginder Singh said:
Wahe Guru willing, HTML5 will be ready sooner than everybody expects.
snuke said:
wow, can't wait though!
Barney said:
@Ian Hickson & Anne van Kesteren:
Thanks for the considered comments!

@owners:
Brilliant. Good laugh. Made me look.
Brian said:
This made my morning:)
Garth said:
Hahahaha, 4444 sounds good.
Kristopher said:
Haha I was going to say, why come 4444 wasn't special?
Geoffrey Sneddon said:
Woops, that meant to be 4444 days.
Zack Katz @ Katz Web Design said:
I hear that's when Twitter expects their servers to scale properly, too!
CollabStation.com said:
LOL a new type of computing will be out before this. www.collabstation.com
collabstation.com/projects/droppedgt
Garth said:
Geoffrey Sneddon: Count me in.

The weird part is some of us might have had the odd chance to meet in real life by then...
Jim Silverman said:
What's the estimate for when IE will support HTML5? 2050?
Geoffrey Sneddon said:
Anyone want to party when it reaches 444 days?
Dor said:
"Only"? That's it? I thought it's gonna be longer...
Issam El Armi said:
I'll get old before tasting HTML5....
Nevermind XML / XSLT for the win ^^
CollabStation.com said:
I'm sure websites will be 3d environments before this is complete
amro mousa said:
Brilliant. Any guesses on HTML 6?
Werbeagentur said:
nice one! think we'll have to switch using xslt ...
Rob Hudson said:
Can you add an RSS feed to this site so I don't have to keep checking every day?
DanBUK said:
Well seeing as the draft only just appeared I am thinking this is a very long time off...
(15 September 2008 Draft Published..)

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/
Scott Mallinson said:
I'll be 37 by the time HTML5 is released? I'd best start planning my retirement now.
Wolotko Dimitry said:
And CSS 3 is not ready too :(
Darwin said:
So many days ? o_O
neolao said:
CSS 3 is not ready too
Martin Hassman said:
Ready for WHO? Aren't some parts of HTML5 ready for ordinary webdesigners already?
Brade said:
I'm pretty sure humans will have learned to fly by then, and websites will be the last thing on our minds.
Arne Richter said:
This time table is not relevant to web workers. We will all rely on HTML5 in just a few years. It is right around the corner. Self delusion? Yes!
Dan W said:
Will IE6 still be around?
daragh said:
We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
John Dowdell said:
ah, great, unadvertised comment limits, whatever.... ;-)
John Dowdell said:
Quote: <em>"That's plenty of time to let Flash and Silverlight make it irrelevant."</em>

I can't speak for Microsoft, but from what I've seen inside Macromedia and Adobe the last decade, that's not only not a priority, but would be seen as a stupid and
Saulo said:
Wait, but... Isn't the world ending in 2012?
Saul said:
OK, everyone has to google "Wakuko", that guy is a blast :)
Mootkins said:
XHTML Basic 1.0 is all I need.

(^_^)/
Wakuko said:
I bet my balls M$ is bribing every single person involved in HTML5 to delay its implementation to further their agenda of killing the web.

They have done so in every committee they have been involved.
World music said:
I thing it is only 634 days left ;-)
World music said:
What if all browsers will support it earlier? Than the counter is not needed!
Oliver said:
This is nice, but where it the mailing list form ? (:
Julian K. said:
It makes me laugh when I think about it...
Ian Hickson said:
If anyone wants to help us, the HTML5 effort is a completely open community project which anyone is free to join. See http://whatwg.org/ for more details, or join us on Freenode IRC in channel #whatwg.
Ian Hickson said:
The spec itself will be "done" (in what we call "last call") in late 2009 according to the current timetable, with the finishing touches ("candidate recommendation") done by 2012. That's about on par with how long it has taken to do other specifications o
Ian Hickson said:
The 2022 date is for when we will have two completely bug-free and interoperable implementations of the entire spec, which is something that we've never had for any major Web spec since the start of the Web. It's a very audacious goal, and actually achiev
Ian Hickson said:
HTML5 is already "ready" in terms of whether browsers can start implementing or in terms of whether authors can start using it. There are little indicators in the spec showing how "ready" each part is.

The 2022 date is for when we will have two complet
Daniel J. Pemberton said:
This page is no longer valid XHTML 1.0 Strict, or valid CSS. Please place a closing div for id "commentform" and in style.css, the color 222 in p#verdict needs to be #222. Thanks, and here's to the future of HTML5.
Dume Ahs said:
Maybe HTML 5 will be so smart it will close all div tags for you and not give a hoot whether there is a hash sign in front hexadecimal attributes.
Preben said:
Damn, how long can it take to write even one specification. Are they gonna throw in like 1000 new things? Really, they need to have something really marvellous in html 5, when they use, well 15-20 years to make.

And the earth need to survive like, 100
Kevin Lamping said:
Good thing I have this counter, I'll probably get alzheimer's with half the days left to go.
Nick Sergeant said:
I'm interested to see what happens to this page in 4,858 days. Oh... wait...
John said:
At this rate html6 is going to be done before html5.
Anne van Kesteren said:
When you mesaure like this most things are not ready :-)
Dave said:
Now we just need an RSS feed!
tw said:
Only just 3 presidential terms + change! It'll be here in a flash!
indigi said:
Aw, man!
chad said:
That's plenty of time to let Flash and Silverlight make it irrelevant. XML and Microformats look to be teh future.
Jason Beaird said:
...and just like that, the flame wars begin again! :)
J Cornelius said:
That sure is a long time away!

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