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As the article points out, they are only using parts of HTML5 that are supported by older browsers, including IE6.

HTML5 must be some kind of wundertechnology. Reached draft in 2008, supported on browsers released in 2001.

Come on, it's great that they're ditching Flash, but if it really works on IE6 calling it "HTML5" is nothing but link/pageview-bait. The parts of HTML5 that are supported by IE6 are called HTML4 and Javascript.

Actually, browsers often implement features that aren't in a standard, just because they think it's a good idea. Some of those end up being memorialized by the W3C and part of HTML. Many of the features of HTML5 started that way, including, in this case, web fonts (part of CSS3).

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