+[[!meta date="2010-05-02 17:16:15 -0400"]]
+
First, if you just want to embed videos using the html5 `<video>` tag,
you can do that without switching anything else to html5.
However, if you want to fully enter the brave new world of html5, read on..
Ikiwiki's default CSS will work in both modes.
The html5 support is still experimental, and may break in some browsers.
-No care is taken to add backwards compatability hacks for browsers that
+No care is taken to add backwards compatibility hacks for browsers that
are not html5 aware (like MSIE). If you want to include the javascript with
those hacks, you can edit `page.tmpl` to do so.
-[Dive Into HTML5](http://diveintohtml5.org/) is a good reference for
-current compatability issues and workarounds with html5.
+[Dive Into HTML5](http://diveintohtml5.info/) is a good reference for
+current compatability issues and workarounds with html5. And a remotely-loadable
+JS shiv for enabling HTML5 elements in IE is available through [html5shiv at Google Code](http://code.google.com/p/html5shiv/).
---
* [[plugins/htmltidy]] uses `tidy`, which is not html5 aware, so if you
have that enabled, it will mangle it back to html4.
+* [[plugins/toc]] does not understand the html5 outline algorithm.