- From: Patrick Garies <pgaries@fastmail.us>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:27:55 -0500
- To: Arun <arun.ranganathan@corp.aol.com>, public-html@w3.org
Arun wrote: > > I suppose we could go about saying "an XML serialization of HTML5" but > that's a real mouthful. HTML5 XML Serialization > HTML5 XMLS > HTML5 XS > HTML5 X > H5X Pronunciations for the abbreviations could be character‐by‐character or “hex” for H5X or maybe “hex five” for HX5. HTML XML Edition 5 > H|X|E5 (“Hixie 5”) Arun wrote: > If someone comes up with a great proposal, I'm all for it, but I'm not > terribly worried about confusion yet (speaking on behalf of a company > that authors web pages). A strawman might be "HTML5 as XML" (since > when we use that, we're supposed to use a strict mimetype anyway). HTML5 as XML works. It could be abbreviated as H5AX, H5X, or HAX. Alternatively, HTML as XML 5 could be abbreviated as HAX5. HAX is easier to pronounce and type than HTML and XHTML are.
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