I just finished applying the tips from the “What Does It All Mean” section of Mark Pilgrim's awesome “Dive Into HTML5” to this blog, so now there's even more depth and structure to my posts. At least for machines. It doesn't have any real upsides for non-metal readers, but it makes me feel better—and let's face it, that's all this is really here for. If it were about you, I'd actually post here from time to time.

Even though it doesn't really matter at the moment, it's nice to be able to turn a bunch of structural ids and classes in the HTML into something standard. As an exercise in playing with the new HTML5 elements it was definitely a success.

I also used the <audio> tag for the first time, making the sample player for Astraios's website use that instead of a plugin in browsers capable of playing back mp3 via <audio> (I didn't feel like dual-encoding to ogg to get Firefox support; at least not yet). It was amazing how easy it was; it definitely is living up to its goal of making audio as easy as images (syntactically, that is—obviously the codec situation and the browser support aren't quite there yet). Even layering it over the existing code so the other browsers still work was trivial. It's definitely an exciting time for the web!