X/HTML 5
Bei xhtml.com gibt es ein Interview von Vlad Alexander mit Ian Hickson einem der Authoren der X/HTML 5 Spezifikation über den Stand und die Zukunft von HTML5.
We’re trying to use a much more scientific process with the development of HTML 5 than is usually used for new specifications. So, for example, many of the new sectioning elements (for marking up navigation blocks, articles, sections, footers, headers, and so forth) were based on a study of several billion documents done by Google, where we saw that these were the sectioning elements most used by authors.
Some of the other features, like the scoped stylesheet feature that allows style elements to be put in the document itself with the content, in such a way that only that content is styled, were added based on feedback from authors.
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One of the other new features in the draft is datagrid, which is a tree view/list view control with built-in support for AJAX-backed data stores, so you can do something like the typical Webmail view of all your tens of thousands of e-mails, but instead of only showing 20 at a time, you can just scroll through all of them, without having to actually download them all until they’re needed.
We also have client-side storage APIs (implemented by Firefox, I believe), offline indicators so you can write applications that detect when they’re going offline, drag-and-drop APIs compatible with those implemented by IE and Safari, various networking APIs for both safe cross-domain and cross-frame communication, and for client-server two-way communication.