HTML WG Resources, Drafts & Issue Tracking

The HTML5 Draft

HTML5 Design Principles (Public Draft)
HTML 5 Differences from HTML 4 (Editor's Draft)
Web Developers' Guide to HTML5 (Editor's Draft)
- Abstract of Web Developers' Guide to HTML5: "This document illustrates how to write HTML 5 documents, focussing on simplicity and practical applications for beginners while also providing in depth information for more advanced web developers"
- Web Developers' Guide to HTML5 (ESW Wiki Page)
Offline Web Applications (W3C Note)
- Abstract of Offline Web Applications: "HTML 5 contains several features that address the challenge of building Web applications that work while offline. This document highlights these features (SQL, offline application caching APIs as well as online/offline events, status, and the localStorage API) from HTML 5 and provides brief tutorials on how these features might be used to create Web applications that work offline"
Web Workers: An accompaniment specification for HTML5
- Abstract of Web Workers: "This specification defines an API that allows Web application authors to spawn background workers running scripts in parallel to their main page. This allows for thread-like operation with message-passing as the coordination mechanism."