It's Official: HTML5 Is A Standard

rjmarvin writes: The Worldwide Web Consortium today has elevated the HTML5 specification to ‘recommendation’ status http://sdtimes.com/w3c-html5-r..., giving it the group’s highest level of endorsement, which is akin to becoming a standard. The W3C also introduced Application Foundations with the announcement of the HTML5 to aid developers in writing Web applications, and said the organization is working with patents holders of the H.264 codec to agree on a baseline royalty-free interoperability level commitment.