Like a lot of people with websites to build now, I admit to being a little disinterested in HTML 5. Maybe because it’s the New Year there’s been an extra flurry of activity—certainly true for Bruce Lawson—around this upcoming standard. Bruce’s efforts with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA are what finally inspired me to give it a go. Check out more HTML 5 links on my delicious account.

I’m working on a redesign of this website so why not change the code around a little to use HTML 5? After all, if you write semantic code in the first place it isn’t going to be much of a problem is it? Early impressions confirm that. Using Remy Sharp’s HTML 5 enabling script to put the new elements into the DOM for Internet Explorer it works in IE7 (I don’t have a VM with IE6 at home). Perhaps I’m being dense with the nesting or CSS or something, but I had to add a lot of negative margin-top to