HTML 5 has taken a different approach to that of earlier versions of HTML. Most people creating web pages ignore the standards and simply use what works and so HTML 5 simply specifies that browsers are to continue to support all the tags marked as obsolete over fifteen years ago. In some instances HTML 5 [...]

HTML 5 currently shares a doctype with prior versions of HTML such as HTML 2. This short version of the doctype simply says that the page is written in HTML without specifying which version. Since we don’t want any antiquated HTML 3.2 tags in our page when we are using HTML 5 we need an [...]

When should you start using HTML 5? Well in my opinion there are some of the tags that you can use now, some that will become usable once enough browsers support them and some that you should never use because they should never have been added in the first place and will hopefully be removed [...]

Another article dealing with proposed additions to HTML. Here we look at the new attributes that are to be available for use with forms that will hopefully make forms more interactive with less reliance on JavaScript. New Input Tag Attributes in HTML 5

Some of the new tags HTML 5 proposes are useless as far as current web browsers are concerned but have uses beyond the web browser and offer the potential for future browsers to give visitors more control over the parts of the page that they see. New Semantic Tags

Some of the new form field types that HTML 5 proposes are more useful than others. New Form Types

HTML 5 proposes the introduction of this new tag to do away with the need for the Flash plugin currently required to allow web pages to play videos. The Video Tag

While there are not many tags that are proposed to be dropped, there are quite a few attributes that are suggested for removal from the next version of HTML. Attributes Dropped From HTML 5

The proposal for the next HTML version suggests changes to the meanings of several tags but does not provide a mechanism for determining which HTML version is being used to allow you to work out which meaning is intended. Changed meanings in HTML 5

There are lots of new input field types proposed to be added to the next version of HTML. Almost all of them will make form processing much easier. HTML 5 New Form Fields

After the tag cleanup in HTML 4 there are not many extra tags that the next version could do away with. Tags Removed From HTML 5

The proposal for the next version of HTML lists a significant number of new tags. Here we look at what all the new tags are and what the closest equivalents are in the current standard. HTML 5 New Tags