html4 vs html5 and "superseded RECs" when there isn't a new REC

With HTML4 we have the formal W3C Recommendation for HTML, but no one would want that as the basis for a UA.  It has been superseded by HTML5.   But, people still write that html4 is the html spec and html5 is in the future.  Obviously, that doesn’t reflect the Web Browsers out there which have embraced html5.  But html5 is still years away from going to REC.

It seems in this (hopefully) unusual situation, there should be some way to mark the html4 REC with a note that indicates it has been superseded by html5 in implementations, with a pointer to the latest W3C html WG TR draft in the html4 spec.  And start more frequent updates of the TR html5 WD so it isn’t so far out of date.

Things have changed and for html5 drafts are acting like RECs.  W3Cs documents should reflect that.