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Does anybody remember that funny thread where some dev here was saying "who calls it HTML5 anymore" as if everyone else was out of touch with stagnating irrelevant skills that would immediately throw red flags during a phone screen?

It just gave me a chuckle thinking about it

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I mean, I'd call it html unless searching for the list of features that were bundled as html5 specifically. My understanding is that html5 was only versioned at all to differentiate it from legacy html versions. It's a living standard at this point, discrete versions are avoided at all costs. Just look at the doctype, if the intention was to continue versioning as before why did they leave the 5 out of the doctype?

Uh... what do people call "it" now-a-days? Serious

Mostly HTML5 in my experience.

Less seriously, sometimes it's referred to as "Oh, whatever happened to XHTML 2.0, I was so looking forward to that, oh well guess we're using HTML5" but this is usually at conferences.

Maybe just HTML?

It's kinda like how sometimes you use "Javascript" but in some contexts you're talking about a specific version (e.g. new features) and will instead mention it by a version name.

Javascript thick clients.

"web dev" according to that guy from the old thread

sure, I've heard that context too

I think people understood my comment neither correctly, and ,it seems, nor in the same way? Anyways, what I was asking was whether there exists a new name for html5? Have people dropped the 5? Comically, it was always a vague, tattered umbrella term from the get go (whenever used to refer to anything else than HTML5 the language/spec).

The spec which was once called HTML5 is just called HTML now. They dropped the version number since it is continuously updated rater than versioned.

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