HTML 5 - future of the web?

[temi]

The future of the web is fast approaching. The specifications for HTML 5, the successor to today's HTML 4, are still in the draft phase, but already forward-looking browsers are starting to add limited support for HTML 5 elements.
The web has grown and changed in remarkable ways since the release of HTML 4 in 1997. No longer are sites just a loose collection static pages joined together by some hyperlinks. The web is now Ajax-powered and full of video, audio and interactive widgets.
HTML 5 is an attempt to give developers a way to create pages which harness the newest technologies but still work in any browser on any platform — be it a traditional desktop, a mobile phone, a game console or (one day) even your toaster. For more background on HTML 5, check out our earlier coverage or have a look at the draft specification.

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[Resonate]

Im more for xhtml 2

[themasterinc]

no creo mmm

[fisker]

More technical stuff to learn. Is there any end to it

[smeagain]

CSS2 was published by the W3C in May 1998 and is still not fully supported by all the current crop of popular browsers with consistency let alone CSS2.1 which was first published in 2002 I think. So what chance does HTML 5 stand ??