Bruce Lawson did a talk at Tech Days 2011 on HTML5 – Who, what, when and why. In his words HTML5 is ” the most-hyped technology since bread-slicers, but there’s precious little information out there that isn’t either nonsense or technobabble.”
He delivered a similar talk at this year’s HTML5 Live. Here’s his talk from Tech Days and here are the full resources:
[...] For the longer, more definitive look at what happened to XHTML and how HTML5 came to be check out the Dive Into HTML mirror site or Bruce Lawson’s “HTML5: Who, What, When Why” talk. [...]