Unfortunately, there is a reason not to use HTML5 tags – Internet Explorer 7.
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The keyword and description meta-tags are still used by Google and other search engines, and so will the new HTML5 tags.
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Previous versions of HTML were designed specifically for markup, so they only worried about how the words and images were placed on the page relative to each other. No care at all was given to the meaning or relative significance of the words. HTML5 brings us much closer to a proper XML system by allowing both layout and structural tags, to tell the browser not only where to place things, but also what the various parts of the code represent.
Geekiness Scale
Sometimes we post about our Christmas party. Other times we post about in-depth CMS functionality or the x-height of Helvetica. Here's our geekiness scale to help you tell whether you need your thinking cap on:
