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0 pointswatty14y ago0 comments

Kind of like how the internet has become the "cloud", all things related to the browser are now "HTML 5".

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harisenbon14y ago· 3 in thread

While I agree with you, semantically, the author did already address that.

"Technically, HTML5 is a specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (Footnote 2). Many pedants will claim this is the only correct usage. For the rest of us, HTML5 is a useful term to describe the rapid changes that are currently happening to the Web platform."

spooneybarger14y ago

I don't know anyone who describes the rapid changes that are happening as 'HTML5'.

kanaka14y ago

Even the W3C is not pedantic about "HTML5". A lot of what is advertised on their logo page at http://www.w3.org/html/logo/ (File APIs, IndexedDB, WebSockets, SVG, WebGL, CSS 3D, etc, etc) are not technically part of the HTML5 standard specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/).

As another example, look through the presentations on "HTML5" given at Google I/O. All the interesting stuff is not in the W3C HTML5 specification.

There are numerous other examples.

Try reading through the whole W3C HTML5 specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/) and you'll realize how little of what people refer to as HTML5 is actually contained in that document.

ugh14y ago

Then pay attention, I guess?

Nearly everyone is now using HTML5 in that sense.

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ez7714y ago

'Web 2.5' or (a la Chrome) 'Web 3' would make better buzz terms.

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