• HTML5 is designed to be “fake-able” in older browsers, the mark-up between the video tags is ignored by browsers that understand HTML5 and is rendered by older browsers. Therefore, embedding fall-back video with Flash is possible using the old-school <object> or <embed> tags, as pioneered by Kroc Camen is his article “Video for Everybody!”

  (Smashing Magazine)

• HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.
  After more than two years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain ajax and flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.
  Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it’s just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.
  HTML5 Boilerplate

To be continued…

• Further Reading
  • W3C Specification: HTML5 (Edition for Web Authors)
    Just the stuff for those who write websites (as opposed to those who write browsers).
  • HTML5 Demos and Examples
    Demos of the HTML5 APIs that are implemented in browsers.
  • HTML5 Doctor
    Short, focused articles, “helping you implement HTML5 today.”
  • html5-shims
    Scripts that fake HTML5 functionality in older browsers.
  • html5-center
    Die HTML5-Strukturelemente
  • Smashing Magazine
    Die HTML5-Strukturelemente nochmal. Ausführlicher, besser, aber auf englisch

  (Smashing Magazine)