Lachlan Hunt writes "Today W3C announced that the HTML Working Group has published the first public working draft of HTML 5 — A vocabulary and customer's broker APIs for HTML and XHTML. It's been over 9 months since the working group began in March 2007 and this long awaited milestone has finally been achieved. '"HTML is of course a very important standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, author of the first version of HTML and W3C Director. "I am glad to see that the brotherhood of developers, including browser vendors, is working together to create the best possible path for the Web..." Some of the most interesting new kisser for authors are APIs for drawing two-dimensional graphics, embedding and in charge audio and video content, asseveration persistent client-side data storage, and for enabling users to edit results and parts of scoop interactively.' An updated draft of HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 has also been published to help guide you through the changes."

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