Where is HTML at?

You've probably worked out by now that HTML is a bit of a slippery beast, what with deprecated tags, and browsers that behave in odd ways. Like most software, it's constantly adapting and changing. W3C is trying to keep a lid on it, and encourage the right kind of development. HTML 5 is under development - latest editor's draft just out.

http://www.alistapart.com/ has great articles, I do recommend you check it out, including this one, which discusses some of the features of the new version.

HTML Version 5

I've unashamedly cut and paste this from the Hotscripts newsletter I subscribe to, thought it might be of interest. Adds more weight to the necessity to forget deprecated tags and get with CSS:

The W3C HTML Working Group has released the HTML 5 working draft last week. Many new features have been introduced in this newer version of HTML aimed at helping designers and developers build better web applications. Several new elements have been introduced for layout like <navigation>, <header>, and <footer> and various attributes have been depreciated in favor of CSS. Some old features, like frames, have also been removed.

You can find a list of difference between the current version of HTML and that of HTML 5 in this article. While it will take some time for browsers to fully support these new features, the future of HTML 5 is a very big step forward toward improving interoperability.