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HTML5 Is Dead, Long Live HTML

A name that served to assist Web standards advocacy is retired for the sake of clarity.

By Thomas Claburn ,  InformationWeek
January 22, 2011 08:00 AM

HTML5, the evolving specification that describes modern Web development technology, has proven to be a hit. It has the backing of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera, the major Web browser vendors. Apple and Google even have Web sites specifically to promote HTML5.

Yet only a few days after the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the standards body that oversees the HTML specification, introduced a new HTML5 logo to promote next-generation Web technology, a related standards group, the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) declared that HTML5 shoul