How To Use HTML5 Today

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Dori Smith offers developers a hands-on guide to using HTML5 today. 'Many of the media reports about HTML5 have focused on the politics, the "not until 2022" sound bite, or on HTML5's prospects as a "Flash killer." The reality of HTML5 is simply that it's the long-needed and long-overdue update to HTML4 mdash; and you can start to implement it today,' Smith writes. Video, semantic tags, smart form input validation mdash; Smith steps through several HTML5 features that can already be implemented, while noting several other presentation features that will soon be on their way. Smith also discusses IE work-arounds, such as HTML 5 Shiv and Google Chrome Frame."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F07%2F12%2F1543248%2FHow-To-Use-HTML5-Today" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=How+To+Use+HTML5+Today%3A+http%3A%2F%2 Fbit.ly%2F9uqCfH" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/07/12/1543248/How-To-Use-HTML5-Today?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_i83B1LxR9IR2PGzinLkC2nmxiM/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_i83B1LxR9IR2PGzinLkC2nmxiM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_i83B1LxR9IR2PGzinLkC2nmxiM/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/_i83B1LxR9IR2PGzinLkC2nmxiM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/my_1dIDfYLA" height="1" width="1"/

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