To me, HTML5 is just the latest hip term and does not really describe the platform. HTML5 specifies new markup and scripting API's, but does not specify the scripting language or CSS version does it?
On 2010-08-10, at 17:14, Sarah Allen wrote: > Anything we pick will be stale in a few years... I vote for HTML5 :) > > On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:44 PM, P T Withington wrote: > >> On 2010-08-10, at 16:32, Raju Bitter wrote: >> >>> As an Adobe expert said: OL DHTML is the closest you can get to Flash >>> without using Flash, but many people don't know that fact. To me, >>> DHTML sounds old, ugly and out-dated. >> >> Can we get that "on the record"? >> >> My only fear with switching to HTML5 is that that will be stale in a few >> years too. >> >> We want a term that means just what your Adobe guy said: Flash without >> Flash. What do the other popular frameworks like JQuery call themselves? >> Are they still saying AJAX? Can we invent a new term that conveys what is >> special about OL, and own that term, so it can't go stale? >
