HTML5 has finally reached working draft status as of Jan 22nd.
Why is this good news? Well other than the obvious improvements (though some may argue the improvements pale in comparison to the tag bloat but that’s another post), it completely side steps the hotly debated news/issues/load-of-crap/etc regarding DOCTYPE targeting and IE8.
DOCTYPEs in HTML5 will not have any browser centric nonsense, and will look about like this:<!DOCTYPE html>. No needless targeting as any current browser will read this doctype and switch into compliance mode. It’s really very awesome because you could, I suppose, go ahead and start writing code using this DOCTYPE and have your code last for the foreseeable future.
Anyway this was completely off my radar so thanks to Jonathan Snook for pointing this out.