HTML5 Work Splits Into ?Living? And ?Snapshot? Standards. Developers Need Not Worry, Says Living Standard Leader

It's not often in the mobile world that you hear of a split in standards development that doesn't make you groan thinking of the complications that it will imply moving ahead (hello, Android!). But a new development for HTML5 will apparently do just that. The?Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3G), the two bodies working on HTML5, are parting ways with WHATWG taking charge of an evolving, "living standard" and W3C working on a more static "snapshot." Some are already raising the issue of forking ("Overall this doesn't seem to be a good development. It will no longer be possible to say exactly what HTML5 is," writes developer Ian Elliot), but the?head of WHATWG, Ian Hickson,?told TechCrunch in an email exchange late last night: ?"We're probably going to make a lot more rapid?progress now." (Quick background: HTML5 is the web-based, non-native mobile web protocol championed by Facebook, Opera and other developers for the promise of developing apps and other mobile content that works across different operating systems without significant customization or special code work. It still has a long way to go, though, before it's as functional as a native platform like iOS or Android.)

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