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23rd January 2008 - Link Blog

HTML 5 published as W3C First Public Working Draft! A significant step, almost completely overlooked in the hubbub over IE8.

Posted 23rd January 2008 at 2:15 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 23rd January 2008.

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