On January 22nd 2008 the W3C published the First Public Working Draft of HTML 5 - this is a big step forward since this draft has been in the works for several years. It was initially just being developed by the WHATWG, with the W3C HTML Working Group coming on board to help out with it in March 2007. Alongside the HTML 5 draft a HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 document has been published, which gives a high-level overview of what new functionality HTML 5 brings.

HTML 5 will have new elements for defining more logical and semantically superior structure, such as section, header, and footer. It will also have new native controls, such as progress, datagrid and various new values for the type attribute of the input element. And it features a canvas element that can be used to dynamically create bitmap graphics using a sweet JavaScript API for 2D graphics.

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