ASP.NET MVC HTML5 Toolkit

The ASP.net MVC HTML5 Helpers Toolkit contains a rich set of controls that you can use to build ASP.net websites using HTML5.  Harness the power of HTML5 and start using it in your applications. It’s lightweight and can be a great step in getting your website up to speed with HTML.

You can download and try the toolkit from here

For additional information visit here

You can find some cool nice samples/examples from Gunnar Peipman’s ASP.NET blog  about ASP.NET MVC meets HTML5

Now you are getting a question in mind.

What is so special about HTML 5?

HTML5 is currently under development as the next major revision of the HTML standard. Like its immediate predecessors, HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears.

The following links will give some reference about it…..

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/

http://www.webmonkey.com/2008/11/what_html_5_is_and_what_it_is_not/

http://webdesign.about.com/od/html5/a/html_5_whats_new.htm

http://www.phpguru.org/whats-new-in-html5

http://html5gallery.com/

http://m.gottaquirk.com/2010/07/27/html5-what-you-need-to-know/?qpv=mfd