Shortly after receiving a lot of flak for their HTML5 logo announcement, the W3C has now announced that HTML will soon drop the version number altogether.
In a blog entry Thursday, HTML specification editor Ian Hickson announced that the HTML specification will no longer have a version number attached. The WHATWG version of the specification will be treated as a “living standard” that will evolve organically as additions are integrated, sort of like a rolling release model.
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