Forewords

HTML5. It’s the most significant web spec today, and the first upgrade of the Web’s ubiquitous language in a decade. Together with its cousin CSS 3, it’s very powerful,very exciting and ludicrously over-hyped. Some “experts” will tell you that you can only use HTML5/ CSS 3 in the bleeding-edge nightly build of their favourite browser. Other pundits will tell you that you can’t use them because “the specs aren’t finished”, or there is no support in Internet Explorer, or other such blahblahblah.

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