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Is this a snipe at the W3C from the WHATWG? Is it a coincidence that the W3C announced the HTML5 logo yesterday, and today the WHATWG is dropping the 5? Why wou
by macrael 16y ago
Is this a snipe at the W3C from the WHATWG? Is it a coincidence that the W3C announced the HTML5 logo yesterday, and today the WHATWG is dropping the 5? Why would that not have been coordinated? I feel like the W3C logo would make more sense as being HTML instead of HTML5
- annevk 16y agoI am a Member of the WHATWG and one of the persons that pushed for this change. We try not to snipe at the W3C. What happened was that HTML5 was used to mean a lot more than HTML5-the-spec in practice. The W3C embraced this and designed a logo around this concept. Now that the W3C was on board with calling e.g. CSS HTML5 we thought we could safely carry out a move we had wanted to make at the end of 2009. Namely dropping the 5 from HTML5 since HTML has no versions. It is a continuously evolving language.