HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D Reach Candidate Recommendation Status

Today marks an important milestone for Web development, as the W3C announced the publication of the Candidate Recommendation (CR) version of the HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D specifications. The specifications are on track for finalization by 2014. We want to congratulate the W3C on this achievement and bringing these specifications forward.

Internet Explorer 10 already offers hardware-accelerated HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2D support allowing developers to build compelling, cross-browser Web applications with good performance. We look forward to working with the Web community to finalize interoperable specifications in a timely manner. At the same time, we are actively involved in defining the scope for HTML 5.1, which includes exciting multimedia and other features that will continue to advance Web experiences.

You can read more about the progress to-date with HTML 5.0 and Canvas 2.0 specification, the next steps toward reaching Final Recommendation status, and progress toward defining HTML 5.1.

-- Sandeep Singhal, Group Program Manager, Internet Explorer

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  I'll bite the bait. IE8's InPrivate Filtering and IE9/10's Tracking Protection both allow adblocking.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  I've been using IE9 for a while now with Tracking Protection on and guess what?  I still see ADS!  adblocking  Please don't joke with me!! ~OpIEDead Active

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  LOL! Blame Evil Google for all those ads.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  Well, not even google is evil enough not to allow adblock.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  For IE8 and IE9 users there is also IE7pro addon. blocks ads, adds spellcheck, adds greasemonkey scripting, adds mouse gestures, proxy switcher etc. etc.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  I have just gone on IE10 on windows 8 now that takes some puzzling out still trying

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
  @IESHUKS - Then stop using it the wrong way. Awesome news, congratulations to the W3C.

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 18, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 18, 2012
  Hurf durf, if you enable tracking protection you'll also need a list for it to block anything except for things found by the heuristic. It's as useful as if you install AdBlock Plus without a list - it won't do anything. If you install the same lists as ABP uses, the result will be similar.

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 18, 2012
  The mousepositioning is outside the browser windows is a bug but so far noone has found any realistic way to exploit it in the real world. So it will only be a very very low risc security issue and thus have low priority to fix it. Mayby in IE11

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 20, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 20, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 20, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 20, 2012
  where i geting/dounload internet explore 9 guys pleace?thanks

• Anonymous
  December 20, 2012
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• Anonymous
  December 21, 2012
  In the interest of continuing the obvious trolling in this thread... @Brian, you use that word "usable". I do not think it means what you think it means. :-)

• Anonymous
  December 22, 2012
  IEOnly will never die if IE continues to offer premissive Quirks mode. It's about to 2013 but we still have shiny IEOnly sites like the following: 114.80.221.83/.../compLogin.jsp

• Anonymous
  December 27, 2012
  awesome!i love it.