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HTML 5 reference implementations

I am looking for a good article or description of what HTML 5 actually is or not. Last year at Google I / O, I heard that Google Gears can be seen as a reference implementation of HTML 5. Shortly after, the Yahoo BrowserPlus plugin came out with similar functionality. I think Firefox also has some offline support? So, again, these plugins / browsers are considered implementations of HTML 5, and exactly what HTML 5 covers (standalone support ?, local data storage, more efficient stream processing?) ...

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There is no such thing as a reference implementation of HTML5.

http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Implementations_in_Web_browsers contains information about which web browsers have implemented so far with respect to HTML5.

As for HTML5. It is a document and application language that can use various API applications, including storage and offline. For more details, it is probably easiest to look at the specification: http://www.whatwg.org/html5

"Threads" is part of a separate specification, carried out mainly by the same group of people, called Web Workers: http://www.whatwg.org/ww

(Disclaimer: I am a member of WHATWG and a member of the W3C HTML Working Group.)

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