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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.

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.

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.

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

sure, I've heard that context too

Javascript thick clients.