Remember the famous lines, “If you build it, they will come.” Please recall the wiser line, “only in the movies,” because it is only in the movies that this line is true. You may have stumbled across the recent online buzz of html5. People have been raving about its replacement of Flash and how wonderful it is. Staple your ecstatic developer to their seat, because with this technology, “If you build it, they will not see it.”

I am just as excited as the next designer to begin implementing this new technology. Flash is great, but the developer in me loves bursting out with new technology. Unfortunately this new technology just isn’t something websites should be using yet. Why? Browsers usually do not support the latest technologies, particularly this one.

HTML5 is not supported by the following browsers…

• Internet Explorer 7 and all older versions of IE
• Firefox 3.0 and all previous versions
• Safari 3.0 and all of its older versions
• Google’s Chrome – none of its versions
• Opera – none of its versions

- Reference provided by Quirksmode.org

With stats like these, take the safe road and do not implement, or allow implementation, of HTML5 for at least another year.