State of the web - HTML5
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"There seems to be loads of stuff you can do with jQuery / javascript, which I think is more supported than HTML5. Why aren't people using that more for interaction and animation?"
You might be getting a little mixed up over what is HTML5 vs JavaScript. Remember HTML5 is just the new version of HTML (along with CSS3, new version of CSS). Any site with an HTML5 doctype in the head of the document is considered HTML5 - it doesn't matter if it's a completely static page with only text.
Beyond that, HTML5 consists of a slightly different way of writing HTML (new tags and page structure) along with a set of APIs that enable special features. But in order to make these features work, or implement any kind of animation and interactivity you need to write JavaScript. So they are not separate things to choose between but two technologies used together.