HTML5 has certainly gotten a lot of press throughout the past year or so — and it is a huge leap forward. The HTML5 name has — in general — become somewhat of an umbrella term for a mix of some HTML5 markup, CSS3 and javascript techniques and libraries to help make things come to life (without flash design), as well as fixes for IE and older browsers.

The current state of affairs seems to have taken any relatively new feature or browser trick and affixed the “HTML5″ name on it. It seems that every techie or demo site out there, can’t wait to throw the HTML5 name on any new browser capability, without understanding what HTML5 really is. Even when Apple demonstrated it’s HTML5 demo page, only 2 of the examples demonstrated HTML5 capabilities (audio and video demos) the rest were a collection of CSS3, javascript and Safari-only CSS extensions.

But… none of this matters, because HTML5 has become a brand!
Check out this WC3 site, and a very well-done and beautifully architect-ed site I might add… for the new HTML5 logo (and yes T-Shirts and stickers too).

We may not be using pure HTML5 in this decade, but we sure can wear a T-shirt!!
(of course we can use some HTML5 right now, and put it’s banner on everything that is new in a browser today, as long as we still keep cross-browser compliance in mind for our audience)