Hi, thanks for the article and the work.
I do not want to come across that I bleat but I have to improve a little bit.
Most what you mentioned is more HTML4 (or XHTML). video and audio is HTML5. In addition, HTML5 is much more. I have here once a graphic what HTML5 are realy is :-)
image in big
(image source wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5)
The post title are misleading a little bit. The real new HTML5 Tags are
<header><section><article><nav><main><footer>
and many more, like your <video> or <audio> what you mentioned. But the most important stuff of HTML5 are the device communication.
The tags you have mentioned arent really useful unless you style them with CSS, and since this is a beginner-level tutorial, I didn't include them.
As for the other things being HTML4, there are a few small differences between it and HTML5, which can be confusing to beginners. And obviously, if you're learning HTML right now, you have to learn HTML5.
But anyway, thanks for reading :-)
Hm that's not exactly correct. SEO is important, syntax / text interpretation is important. 100 DIVs helps nobody, but if you structure your page with article, sections ... bots, scripts and all technical stuff can interpret it.
Than, if you use sections, you can use header element and your text structure is more clear than in (X)HTML :-)
Its the same as in 2000`s, everybody use table as design elements. But table are not developed for design, it is for structured data.
I do not want to say that the tutorial is bad. for beginners it is a good start! But it becomes even more confusing for beginners when someone comes and say "use real HTML5 ... connect to the Share API" "what abput canvas" :-) ... I hope I could explain it well what i want to say