Why not use the abbreviation of "h5"?

Recently found that many people like to HTML5 as a H5, or even the mobile end of the Web Page or Web App. It's catchy, but it's really not recommended to use it.

Xiao Bian has done a long time ago about "h5 this saying your Feelings" survey, a total of 552 fans involved, the final result is: 16.7% people think "very good",37.5% think "indifferent", 45.8% of people think "do not like". Why is there so many people do not like "h5" this abbreviation?

"h5" This abbreviation is very unprofessional, easy to cause misleading.

Unlike JavaScript, which is referred to as "js", according to the small part of the situation, H5 this statement is currently only used in mainland China's engineers, Taiwan, India and the United States and other regions do not have this abbreviation, will result in the domestic and foreign technical statements and the wording of the inconsistency. The more important point is that JS is a clear abbreviation, no ambiguity, refers to JavaScript this program language. But H5 is not, at least there is a H5 tag in the HTML.

Once sat on the Beijing subway line Line 13, the front two boys talk about technology, a young man asked "is to learn H5 first, or first learn js". " People who know these skills should smile. This is the technology is misleading, do not know since when, HTML5 this WEB technology a standard, was packaged as "omnipotent h5", attracted a large number of people to pay attention to, even packaged into H5 biosphere, h5 industry. " Investors, of course, do not know the technical details, but a large amount of money in the media, of course, not understand the technical plan, but the industry is reported. Of course, the technical misleading about HTML5 and the Web is only one aspect.

Worryingly, advocates do not advertise to junior technicians exactly what the WEB is, what is HTML5, and what JavaScript is. If you're surrounded by people who talk about H5 all day, you can ask him what is H5, what is HTML5, what is Web, what is Web App, what's the connection? What is the relationship between HTML5 and the browser, HTML5 and HTML, what is the relationship between HTML5 and JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS?

There are a lot of misleading about the H5 industry, and the most common is to see the mobile Web page or Web App as the "h5 page. I remember the senior executives of a well-known internet company said in a job-seeking program that the veteran Web front-end engineer was mainly writing Java. Of course, the current industry professional WEB front-end engineers do not write Java, but for those who are not professional, is a technical misleading. When you point to a friend in the circle of a special effect, a bit of background music marketing Web Page is said as a H5 page, a professional front-end engineers feel is similar unprofessional, but not professional people to hear later? It was misguided, and he thought it was the so-called H5 technology. I can not help but think of the classic problem in the industry, Java and JavaScript What is the relationship? Many people pretend to know that there is a big relationship, in fact, Lei Feng and Lei Feng Tower relationship. Netscape, at that time, borrowed the name of the Java language that was already popular in order to spread JavaScript better.

Many people say that it doesn't matter if they don't care about these statements. But as a professional engineer, I cannot agree with this practice. Hope that the technology industry colleagues, you professional engineers can try to eliminate "h5" this abbreviation, at least to be worthy of your professionalism. To see a mobile Web product or Web App, when you do not understand the technical implementation, such as the implementation of Canvas, SVG or CSS3, or other technical details, call it "mobile Web app" or more precise appellation, not the vague, inaccurate, Misleading "h5 page." If one day, Web technology is really all called H5, I hope Java 8 can also be that Java 8.

I do not know if this suggestion is not my whining, but at least a little heart of an engineer's mind, if there is disapproval, please leave a message to us, write your reasons, thank you very much. If you agree with us, I hope you can forward, so that more people in the industry to see, heartfelt thanks!

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Supplementary information:

In the early days of the vote on "h5" 's abbreviated feelings, the view address of the data was: http://vote.weibo.com/poll/2905710

The picture is a shot in Interstellar crossing, where engineering Schupper alone to go to the habitable planet.

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Wonderful comments:

@ Flying Home _jo:

The first important thing to do technology is not professional and rigorous it? h5 this name is easy to confuse, even this does not care about the person, I really doubt he uses what attitude to write code to do the page.

@i_ Hugh:

The more professional people the more humble, but do not understand the people think everything is very simple, hehe.

@ Excellent web design:

The earliest heard H5, is from some marketing promotion staff there know, asked me if I will do H5 page friends, a page 2000 yuan. At that time also a Leng, what is H5. In fact, also very disgusted to call HTML5 as H5, because complete wood has considered the label H5 feelings. In addition, as HTML5 people said, now those who say H5 page, write out where is what HTML5, at best, in the head wrote a <! DOCTYPE html>.