Over the past year, the argument over whether or not to use the new HTML5 semantic elements has morphed into how to use the new HTML5 semantic elements. All major browsers officially supporting these elements before the end of the year (many before the end of the quarter), and as such, the time to start using these new elements is now. Of course, the world is not just made up of HTML5-capable browser and so the question of writing for backwards compatibility is a major question that many have attempted to answer.