HTML5 Facts?

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    I think everyone gets the wrong idea when we keep framing it like HTML5 is just designed to snuff out Flash. The aspects of HTML5 that compete with Flash are just a small subset of what they're trying to do.

    I mean, it will be nice to finally have actual tags designed for page layout, right, instead of a million divs? I always catch myself typing "<header>" by mistake when I'm coding up a document, with HTML5 you will finally be able to write it like this:

    There's also geolocation detection, web worker support, editable content, better storage of user info in the browser to replace cookies...some pretty good demos of some of the functionality here:

    http://html5demos.com/

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