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.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command.

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

One of the elements added to HTML5, datalists allows authors to natively provide autocomplete options to users. This article discusses what datalists are, when it's appropriate to use them, their limitations, and what to do in browsers that don't support them.