The work on HTML 5 specification started in the year 2004 and the completed specification will be available for browsers to implement, shortly. What is new, or has changed, since the previous HTML 4 specification, is something that may be of interest to web designers and web programmers (ordered by how I see it could be important to these professions). The official working draft of the HTML 5 spec is here

Mozilla has just released an update for the Firefox Beta that updates the current version to 3.1b3 that will be last beta for the version 3.5.

Update brings support for HTML 5, W3C Geolocation API, JavaScript query selectors, and offline applications. HTML 5 is a big thing by W3C that supports some new exciting tags that allow you to put audio and video streaming using native html without requiring 3rd party plugins like Flash and Silverlight e.t.c. Here is the “What’s New” listing via Mozilla’s official website: