HTML5 - viable yet?

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How viable is it to start doing mainstream sites in HTML5 at the moment? I've not let myself look into the full capabilities since I know I'll want to use them but can't due to all the old browser / IE folk...

Are people using it yet? and if so how to they get around compatibility with older browsers?
 
MuGeN said:
How do :)

How viable is it to start doing mainstream sites in HTML5 at the moment? I've not let myself look into the full capabilities since I know I'll want to use them but can't due to all the old browser / IE folk...

Are people using it yet? and if so how to they get around compatibility with older browsers?
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The only slight issue for me is that the majority of fallbacks for none HTML5 browsers relys on JavaScript. However, I guess you need to look at your audience though.

Personally, I'm just building myself up to use in bigger sites - have already used HTML5 no problem in a couple smaller websites.
 
Not really. As long as a site still displays the content without JavaScript it's accessible. You're just excluding the small percentage of people using crap browsers with JavaScript turned off from seeing styled content.

Our sites in total receive over one million unique visits per month, across quite a good cross section of users and we haven't had a single complaint.
 
Well, we use google analytics which can't detect if JavaScript is disabled or not, but general surveys reckon about 0.5 to 2% depending on audience, largely mobile phones like older blackberrys. We handle mobile traffic differently anyway on the restaurant sites we manage by redirecting to a mobile specific site.
 
Not to mention that many of those .5-2% will be users of noscript who should be savy enough to know why so many sites out there don't display so nice for them and to simply enable js if they care.
 
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