HTML 5.0
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The HTML5 spec is not yet official, and the proposal itself is still in flux. Some designers get hung up on that fact, but it's not really the trap you might think. The reality is that Safari, FireFox, Chrome, and Opera already support much of what's proposed in HTML5 (and CSS3 as well). The clunker is—not surprisingly—Internet Explorer, which still fails to support many actual standards that were agreed upon years ago. The larger goals of HTML5 are native support for audio, video, and the "canvas" element. While support for these does vary, the situation is actually far better than back in the days of IE vs Netscape. (Remember all that horrible code forking?) And consider this: YouTube, Vimeo, and many large publishers (think: news sites anticipating the iPad) are all migrating away from Flash to HTML5 video. The spec may not be final but there's a lot of momentum from key players.