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IE program manager endorses HTML 5 multimedia tags

// September 17th, 2009 // Tech News

On Wednesday, Google’s Mark Pilgrim published episode 35 of This Week in HTML 5 , a series of articles that he is writing at the WHATWG blog to document the progress of the Web standards effort. In this episode, he praises Microsoft’s Adrian Bateman, who is providing useful feedback on the HTML 5 draft on behalf of Microsoft. Pilgrim’s article highlights some of Bateman’s commentary on specific features of HTML 5, including statements which indicate that Microsoft is supportive of the HTML 5 multimedia tags. HTML 5 is the next generation of the hypertext markup language standard that is used to produce content on the Web. It originally emerged from the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) and is presently undergoing editing through the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The HTML 5 specification describes a number of important emerging Web features, including the Canvas and Video elements. Some aspects of HTML 5 are already widely implemented in modern browsers.