Over the past few years, HTML5 has gone from mythical creature to vivid reality and has taken its share of hits from skeptics and experts alike as to its readiness and viability. Now, in 2012, HTML5 is ready for use with all modern browsers, including IE9. It has also been developed to gracefully degrade, even without help from JavaScript or CSS resets. Even still, you may be concerned about providing full backwards compatibility, or unsure of what will work in one browser and not another. HTML5 has commonly been blamed for the issues presented by jQuery and CSS3, both newer technologies and standards evolving alongside HTML5, but not actually a part of it. To get a grip on HTML5 browser compatibility, you must first understand the way browsers look at each of these languages. HTML5 is a revision of the HTML markup specification, containing several best practices and rules by which browser makers and web developers can find common ground. It was first drafted and accept