Firstly, I’m not really intentionally trying to naively ask this question.
But actually. I am starting a new Rails project, which, as I expected, I will support for many years, and now I want to make decisions on what the “future” project is, as far as I can.
So, what potential value can I gain from HTML5 in general? I believe the Rails 3 bit is less important for this question, but the second part of my question is this. What does HTML5 use mean? And how do you do it in Rails 3?
From what I understand, Rails3 supports data attributes. Is that good enough in itself?
What about html5boilerplate ? I spent a bit of time looking at the html5boilerplate, but it seems that a lot of things are happening there. And what exactly is that? I see that there is a Rails3html5 project on github, but there is no documentation that would help me understand “Why?”.
So, to summarize, I'm looking for someone familiar with HTML5 enough to explain why someone needs / needs to worry about HTML5 at this point in their life cycle. "Because it is new and strong!" not a good answer.
An explanation of how / why the html5boilerplate will / should be associated with the Rails3 project will also be pleasant.
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