The image comparing balloon and platform techniques should probably have suggested the existence of a broader term.
> Today in the US, most houses and apartments are built using light framed wood construction.
> This system is a variant of a framing style known as balloon framed construction
Also, to the guy sidethread, the distinction between balloon framing and platform framing is the subject of several paragraphs, with illustrations.
In the building codes it is a method of light wood framing (not the other way round).
It can also be a method of light metal framing…in practice this is probably more common in the wild (in the US), because long light metal studs are straight and lightweight and hence more “wieldy.”
They came about at the same time, and shared many of the same concepts, but they are completely different technologies, and one didn't necessarily come from the other.