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The W3C's new HTML5 logo(Credit: W3C)
The World Wide Web Consortium, faced with derision that its new HTML5 logo represented a broader set of Web technologies, has pared down the logo's scope.
"Since the main logo was intended to represent HTML5, the cornerstone of modern Web applications, I have updated the FAQ to state this more clearly. I trust that the updated language better aligns with community expectations," said W3C spokesman Ian Jacobs in a blog post last week.
Indeed, the HTML5 logo FAQ now states in no uncertain terms, "This logo represents HTML5, the cornerstone for modern Web applications." Those who want to promote related technologies--Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Web Open Font Format (WOFF), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Web Sockets, for example--can use the accompanying but subordinate icons.
HTML5 has become something of a marketing buzzword--to some Web developers' chagrin, since it sometimes stands for so much more than the next version of Hypertext Markup Language that's being standardized at the W3C and at its longtime home, the Web Hypertext Applications Technology Working Group (WHATWG).
Indeed, after the W3C released the HTML5 logo, Ian Hickson, editor of the specification at both W3C and WHATWG, moved up the schedule to drop use of HTML5 in favor of just HTML. That's only happening at the WHATWG, though he'd like to see it at the W3C as well.
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