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With the gradual introduction of HTML5 new tags, web developers have questioned its use because of compatibility issues. I've already explained that with new elements you might always have troubles. Personally, what makes me really mad is not knowing exactly what will happen when I use HTML5. Will the web site look as I thought? Will it always look and behave as I see it in my testing browsers?
There's another thing to be considered: the future of internet will be "mobile". We've already noticed that the most used word when talking about the future internet is "mobile". Everything's going mobile. New technologies and new devices are capable of surfing the internet with mobile applications. I'm thinking about smartphones or tablets (prominent market analists think that 2011 and 2012 will be tablet years).
Said that, it is quite clear that web developers will have to (or should have already) start to develop sites and applications in a different way and use HTML5 new features. We should consider the way an iPhone user will see a web site. Possibly we will have to create a standard version and a mobile version of the sites - if we don't want to let mobile users go away or maybe even never reach our homepage.
To get to the point, it's been quite a while since I've started to look around to gather information regarding HTML5. It is quite known that Internet Explorer and HTML5 are not very good friends. Actually, IE doesn't even consider HTML5 new elements. That could be a big problem. But there's a workaround!
Web development, web design and programming.