Author(s) and publish date By: Léonie Watson Published: 6 April 2016 Skip to 22 comments HTML5 was released in 2014 as the result of a concerted effort by the W3C HTML Working Group. The intention was then to begin publishing regular incremental updates to the HTML standard, but a few things meant that didn't happen as planned. Now the Web Platform Working Group (WP WG) is working towards an HTML5