The HTML 5 specification describes a number of important emerging Web features, including the Canvas and Video elements. Some aspects of HTML 5 are already widely implemented in modern browsers.

And the scalable vector graphics set of tags — now often considered part of HTML5 — was the right way to draw lines by putting the information in an endless stream of tags.

Activism, Working Groups and the dream of a single online video codecTues., July 7, by Tim Siglin ...

Take heart however, a cunning developer Cristian Adam has built an IE plugin that will enable the tag for HTML5 in Internet Explorer. Just the video tag, nothing else.