What’s Wrong with “HTML5″
The thing is, the core problem isn’t that the name is too fuzzy. It’s what the name implies. HTML5 sounds like a technology which goes through a beta period and is finally complete. Instead, what the tech press calls “HTML5″ is really a continual process of improving the web browsers that people use. And honestly, that’s how I’d like to see the tech press cover us. Not as group of people working towards a singular milestone that will change the web as we know it, but as a group that has gotten our groove back.
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Yehuda Katz (of Rails and jQuery fame) is concerned about missuse of HTML5 name. HTML5 became a moniker for everything from non-Flash video to Web 3.0 – whatever it is. Fortunately, this problem doesn't matter at all. Move on.
