Question

HTML5 is about to be published with a couple of interesting features. However, I do have concerns regarding the frequency of the HTML updates in general.

Last version of HTML 4 has been published more than a decade ago and in IT, 10 years is an eternity.

What kind of update frequency should we expect after the release of the first HTML5 version? Will it be on a regular basis (yearly?) or can it get even worst with all the people involved in the process?

(Please, try to provide a link to official answer from W3C or an article because I don’t want to start an opinion debate here)

Answer 1

The HTML spec will be updated continuously, it is a living document:

we moved to a new development model,
where the technology is not versioned
and instead we just have a living
document that defines the technology
as it evolves

There’s some further discussion of what this means in questions 2.5 to 2.21 of the FAQ.