Google roses Microsoft HTML5-contribution

Microsoft has broken the silence after five years.

Microsoft has been rather secretive regarding its view on the next version of HTML. This despite the fact that the company is in the working group that will draft HTML5.
But for a month ago, Microsoft's Adrian Bateman came with a public blogpost where he comments and questions a number of sections of the proposed HTML5 standard.

This has been noticed, not least by Google. In a blog post the company writes Mark Pilgrim that Bateman has done something no man or woman has previously made, namely, on behalf of Microsoft to come up with tangible feedback about the current draft of HTML5.

Pilgrim writes that Batemans feedback is both detailed and well-justified. They have led to much more discussion.

- After five years of silence they no miss the opportunity to get in touch with a representative of the world continue to dominant Web browser, type the Pilgrim.

Bateman is among other things quite clear that the keygen-element, which is included in the current draft of the HTML5 will not be supported by the company. Keygen is an item that was already in Netscape, and which has been implemented in some form by every other browser vendors, except Microsoft. An example of the use described here.
In another post he writes, however, that Microsoft will support the audio and video elements that are part of the specification.