Well, after, what? 8 years? Looks like the powers that be have decided to brush off the dust of HTML 4 and give our old and dear friend a much needed (?) face lift.

The article on IBM’s Developer Works site is actually long on details, but the question is, will HTML 5 actually look like what is outlined? The W3C and those crazy browser makers can do the darndest things.

Things like <aside>, <nav>, <dialog> and the new embedable objects (audio/video) looks pretty interesting. Also the new structural tags looks like they are finally going to pay more than lip service to a real structure to HTML. That’d be nice.