As much as the development community and latest browsers are pushing the HTML5 hype up to a fever pitch, the vast majority of people on the web aren’t using those brand new browsers and versions. But that doesn’t mean you have to put off using HTML5 till the next decade. In this column, Brandon Satrom provides some practical strategies for how you can adopt HTML5 technologies today.

A major constraint of web applications has always been connectivity. This article shows you how to use offline capabilities to ensure the app keeps working even when the network connection isn’t.

If you want to reach the broadest audience, you’ll want to design your Web site for accessibility, using the latest technologies That means using HTML5, as this article explains.

While the intention of both HTML V5 and XHTML V2 is to improve on the existing versions, the approaches the developers chose to make those improvements is very different. And with differing philosophies come distinct results. For the first time in many years, the direction of upcoming browser versions is uncertain. Uncover the bigger picture behind the details of these two standards.

Many technologies are informally lumped under the "HTML5" banner. This article helps clear up any confusion about what's in and what's out of the HTML specification, while shining light on the technologies themselves, such as the many CSS3 modules.

Why do you write HTML using the <h1> tag and the <p> tag? Why not just use <div> and <span> tags for everything? Why use any specific HTML tags at all? The reason is that <p> and <h1> tags convey extra information about the content. They say "this is a paragraph" and "this is a heading at the first level", respectively. This is semantic HTML, or HTML for which the author makes every effort to ensure that the markup organizes and structures the content. To some degree all web developers practice it. This article will explain semantic HTML, and explain why you should go deeper into it.

This article explores two pillars of responsive Web design—fluid grids and flexible images.

This article aims to accomplish two major things: giving an introduction to the Dojo JavaScript Framework and a walk-through of how to approach creating a RIA using dynamic HTML and Dojo.

HTML5 will reshape the web experience and line-of-business applications. With the offline capabilities and local persisted storage features, you can deliver the same rich user experiences online and offline that were previously available only in proprietary desktop application development frameworks. In this article, learn how to leverage HTML5 offline capabilities and local persisted storage features. An example application illustrates how to avoid common problems.

Don’t know much about history? Clark Sell shows you how to access and manage session state using the new HTML5 History API.