World Wide Web Consortium has failed to fit the HTLM5 standard to sales requirements. There has been pretty much fuss about this new standard since it was drawn up. Its alleged cross-browser video playing capability became yet another portion of fuel to the raging fire of controversy.

HTML5 received a hearty welcome from Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, probably due to his negative attitude toward incorporation of Adobe Flash elements. It was due to customer pressure that he gave the green light for the Flash to modify Apple tools. Same as the Microsoft Internet Explorer, it will take a little longer for Flash to take a backseat. It will take about just as long for HTML5 to get into full swing. Last week's media have been hard on Philippe Le Hegaret who has accepted responsibility for HTML5 development and is supposed to eliminate delays that occur due to poor video interoperability.

Hegaret admitted that there is a long way to go for the standard to become eligible for production, since it continued to fail cross-browser tests. Remy Sharp, developer of Left Logic in Brighton, was not sure it would ever become operational at all. He said that it required full implementation in two browsers, which would hardly be feasible in the foreseeable future. To make things clear for the public, he referred to the Cascading Style Sheets (CCS) 2.1, which, he said, was not ready either. There was no browser, in which it was fully implemented. There was not a browser not lacking at least one of its elements, and the HTML5 was even less complete.

In response to that, Sharp emphasized the HTML5 standard's characteristics of a toolkit and said that some of its tools might be already in use, while others might never be used at all. He advised the developer to select tools that would suit their particular needs. He said it was not a buzzword issue. All standards, including HTML5, Flash or any other might be chosen to serve specific purposes.