> but I'm afraid we got html5 and just stopped there. They dropped numbered versions. Now it is just HTML which is continuously evolved in a backwards-compatib

> but I'm afraid we got html5 and just stopped there. They dropped numbered versions. Now it is just HTML which is continuously evolved in a backwards-compatible manner. > And if there will be an html6 why can't we just state "use version 5 in this document" Because browser vendors are opposed to explicit versioning, since it introduces multiple rendering modes.