The W3C organization (World Wide Web Consortium), which is responsible for providing standardization services for web programming languages, has recently begun to modify the definition of Hypertext Markup Language and plans to add HTML device tags to the language. According to the new draft definition of Hypertext Markup Language released on December 11: "HTML device identifiers allow users to use web pages to interact with hardware devices such as cameras."
This standard revision plan means that the application scope of Hypertext Markup Language will once again be expanded. Members who expressed support for this expansion also hope that this expansion should not only be oriented to static web pages, but also take more into account the needs of interactive dynamic web applications so that the latter can directly operate the hardware on the user's computer.
Currently, there are two major organizations that have the right to modify and maintain HTML standards: the W3C organization and the less formal WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group) organization. At that time, the W3C organization's development of HTML standards, especially HTML5, was greatly weakened, and it focused instead on XML standards. So some companies that were dissatisfied with this jointly established the WHATWG organization to continue to improve the work of HTML5.
In contrast, WHATWG's HTML device identification definition standard covers a wider scope than the W3C organization. The interfaces supported by the former even include "USB interface media players" and the older RS232 serial port.