For me this just demonstrates W3C's distancing from reality... There where pretty good data-driven and thought-out decisions on HTML5 from the beginning, but things were pretty grim for this year. Parts of the spec are being just pushed around (microdata…), meanwhile there is no public place for developers to be heard (and no, mailing lists and bug trackers are not ideal. this is 2011).
Despite that, the web as a platform is getting better and better. Yes, it's hard to build stuff with HTML/CSS/JS, but it gets easier by the month, and the current state of the technology is really amazing (except for a few legacy browsers still bogging things down).
Despite that, the web as a platform is getting better and better. Yes, it's hard to build stuff with HTML/CSS/JS, but it gets easier by the month, and the current state of the technology is really amazing (except for a few legacy browsers still bogging things down).