After nearly eight years of work, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has finalized the HTML5 standard, bringing the basic Web technology firmly into the era of mobile devices and cloud-driven rich Internet applications.

“HTML5 brings the next generation of the Web,” said W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe. “It wasn’t so long ago that the Web was about browsing static documents. Today’s Web is a much richer platform.”

Although Web and mobile developers have been using parts of the HTML5 specification for several years, the finished specification — which the W3C calls a recommendation — ensures developers that the code they develop for the Web will work going forward.

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