# Html 5

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-5/235250>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [August 9, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-5/235250 "2007-08-09T17:24:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@nobody](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nobody)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-5/235250/1 "2007-08-09T17:24:07Z")

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Not sure if you’ve all seen this or not, but this seems like a pretty big deal. Probably will take 10 years to get implemented by all the browsers, but oh well.

> **[New elements in HTML 5](https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/?ca=dgr-lnxw01NewHTML)**
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> HTML 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section. New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio....

Basically it’s a release to make us stop using div and span for everything, which I welcome.