h5bp/html5please — Issue #84: Add a disclaimer
Author: nimbupani
Created: 2012-01-24 15:20:36+00:00
State: open

> While named HTML5 Please, this site discusses features beyond the HTML5 specification, coming from CSS, SVG, and the greater Open Web Platform umbrella.

As indicated by @iandevlin and @adactio, CSS3 is not part of HTML. However, HTML5 represents an umbrella term for all new technologies (as is inferred from [platform.html5.org](http://platform.html5.org). Also, the specification itself is now a living standard known as HTML and not HTML5.

So, I am not quite sure how this collusion of terms would reflect in developer choices in real life.

- Would they stop using CSS3 because it is now part of HTML5?
- Would they make poorer use of CSS?
- Will this cause choice paralysis in terms of which technology to use?

A word acquires its meaning not because of its original definition but by what people bestow on it while it remains in use. I strongly feel the meaning of 'HTML5' has long since left the building and its implication to refer to the specification itself also has been abandoned by the spec editors.

I would love to hear your thoughts here before we go about adding disclaimers to the site.