Steve Smith on HTML5 and CSS3
http://carsonified.com/blog/design/css3-design/steve-smith-on-html5-and-css3/

Whitaker, Keir
Carsonified
2009

Abstract:

Specifications are moving in the direction of how we have been using the web for the past five years or more, e.g. video, audio and user generated content. Developers have started to fall into habits (some good, some bad), and so the specs are trying to make those habits easier and more standardized. The structural tags, web forms, and advanced CSS are all letting us do the same things we’ve been doing for years, just in an easier, more standardized way.