Lachlan Hunt from ListAPart wrote a post explaining the new HTML5 specification with small examples of what is to come as changes are introduced into the existing HTML4 specification that has been around for ten years. What we can expect are more descriptiive tags, that should arguably make our lives easier. From what I saw the new tags are well thought out, although they are pretty tied to the usual blog-like site massively adopted today. Here’s a scheme of a layout done using the new tags:

It’s clear the new tags can replace the usual DIVs. The new tags allow for a prestructured markup and elements on the page with predetermined properties that will allow for more consistent design. Along with tags pertaining to text and images, there are also new tags that deal with video and audio content. This may prove to be a great development, since embedding multimedia content into a web page can be a somewhat tiresome job. There is plenty more information on the new HTML5 specification and examples here and here. Of course, Lachlan’s post is also great because it gets down to it in a more concise form. I have already mentioned HTML5 with the client-side data storage HTML5 based API some time ago, so take a look at that as well.

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