HTML 5 intro

Here are the highlights from an HTML 5 intro today (by Adam Welling at iCentris):

• The new doctype in its entirety (and probably usable today):
  
• Many new input types give us built-in browser functionality (obviating much JavaScript): date/time, sliders, email, search
• JavaScript library Modernizr will help old browsers get much of that functionality
  
• IE has no 'canvas' right now, but we can use the ExplorerCanvas (AKA excanvas) library
  
• XHTML 2.0 is dead
• No need to self-terminate tags; eg.
  is OK (I don't really like this one.)

Presentation PDF is here.