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The HTML5 specification is being implemented piecemeal as areas of the specification become stable; with all of the major browser manufacturers involved in one or both of the two working groups (W3C and WHATWG) HTML5 will be becoming a bigger part of our day to day work.

Currently all browsers support the HTML5 doctype, which triggers standards mode in browsers, so as an exercise we're trying out HTML5 on banjax.com:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>Banjax Web Design</title>
    ...

If you try banjax.com on the HTML5 Outliner you should see it breaks down into a nice neat 'Table of Contents' like outline, albeit without using the new section or footer elements (HTML5 is backward compatible).

You can also try validator.nu with the Banjax.com url, can't guarantee it's valid because as the spec changes so does validator.nu and we may be a little behind—though at the minute we're not doing anything too advanced so there shouldn't be a problem.

There is a lot of material on HTML5 out there, articles, presentations, tools and wikis. I thought I might try and bring together some of the good stuff:

A couple of really quick HTML5 previews:

XTECH '08 HTML5 Lightning Talk
by Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software ASA
How HTML5 can be used today
by Simon Pieters of of Opera Software ASA

A couple of much longer articles on HTML5:

A Preview of HTML 5
by Lachlan Hunt of Opera Software ASA
New elements in HTML 5: Structure and semantics
by Elliotte Rusty Harold

Useful Resources:

HTML5 Validator
by Henri Sivonen & Mozilla (go to Henri's site, read the articles, acquire knowledge!)
HTML5 FAQ
from the WHATWG Wiki
HTML5 Elements List
by Simon Pieters
HTML5 Differences from HTML4
from the WHATWG Wiki
HTML vrs. XHTML
from the WHATWG Wiki
HTML5 Outliner
by James Graham

by Stephen Stewart
7-Aug-08

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