Comment by jraph

15 days ago

> You will never find a HTML6 or higher

You might be right, but we don't know yet. Microsoft said that for Windows 10.

You might also be right that the current Living Standard specification doesn't really call it HTML5, but you'll find many people writing HTML for a living say HTML5 to refer to it, and telling them that HTML5 doesn't exist doesn't really help and is a bit wrong too if you have a descriptive approach to languages.

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mcny  15 days ago

I'm still hopeful.

The next version of html should be able to do all the http verbs -- get, put, patch, post, delete online, reactively without having to use a form.

There has to be a way to figure this out, even if it requires a transition period. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now. These things belong in the core HTML standards, not a js library you need to include in your code.

Oh that and better controls and better defaults but I guess that is something individual web browsers can implement on their own?

  • jraph  15 days ago

    > that is something individual web browsers can implement on their own?

    Yes, they could, but you want a standard that makes them all implement stuff in a compatible way… :-)

7bit  14 days ago

Microsoft never said that, that's a myth/common misconception

  • jraph  14 days ago

    Okay, at least I haven't dreamed it: [1]

    > Although Microsoft claimed Windows 10 would be the last Windows version, eventually a new major release, Windows 11, was announced in 2021.

    Where does the misconception come from? Do you know where I could read about it?

    edit: it seems you are right, a dev said Windows 10 was the "last version of Windows" which was true but was interpreted as being an absolute statement when he really probably meant "at this time".

    Thanks for correcting me!

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_version_hist...

    • 7bit  14 days ago

      Answering after your edit:

      Yes, Jerry Nixon claimed something like that (he's not just a dev though). But Microsoft never confirmed that, so it's just a statement by one person.

      The Wikipedia quote is problematic, because it doesn't reference any sources for their claim. Whoever the author of that paragraph, it's journalistically bad practice not providing any sources to that claim.

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assimpleaspossi  15 days ago

Telling them HTML5 does exist does even more harm cause it doesn't exist. Telling them it does exist is entirely wrong and is even a false statement, is misleading and causes confusion.

  • jraph  15 days ago

    Ok, I'll bite.

    Assuming you are right and HTML5 doesn't exist. What would be the actual bad outcomes of the following?

    - believing HTML5 exists

    - silently choosing to understand what someone mentioning HTML5 obviously meant