Apple is part of the World Wide Web Consortium, the work on HTML 5 continues

Development of the fifth version of the HTML, web pages markup language, being the second year, but such technology giants as Apple, Mozilla Foundation, Opera, Microsoft and Google can never come together in a unanimous opinion on the innovation. More precisely, with respect to the audio and video codecs to be used in the new specification. In particular, there is a discussion about the introduction of support for the HTML 5 video codec Ogg Theora or H.264 video compression standard (or both of them). That is why one of Apple employees are now will a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (World Wide Web Consortium, W3C). It Stahovyak Maciej (Maciej Stachowiak), one of the WebKit engine developers.

Among the co-chairs, and also a Microsoft employee Paul Cotton (Paul Cottin), and the main techniques of IBM Sam Ruby (Sam Ruby).

Now, representatives of Apple, Microsoft, and IBM will work together with the working group to work on HTML 5. Consortium member, Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) even said that HTML 5 will force the world to rethink the Internet. And these three chairmen, according to Berners-Lee, are capable of using their knowledge to realize the plans of the consortium.