"If you are like most designers, you probably don’t write all your markup by hand. But until the tools you use catch up to the new elements in (X)HTML 5, you will be doing some markup by hand while you learn."
Mind you, that speaks to templates like WordPress layouts, Django plugins, Rails gems that generate their own markup, Drupal modules. The list goes on.
What did you have in mind?
> the ALA convention of "by hand" means "we're not writing flat files full of markup anymore." And we aren't. We use templates now.
This implies that "by hand" means writing templates by hand instead of writing flat files by hand. I'm merely pointing out that the article uses the term to mean something like "most designers aren't writing much html at all", instead using "tools", which "haven't caught up". That's quite different from writing templates.
"hey, ALA reader #21223, there's no Drupal modules that use HTML5 features."
(hand on cheek) "oh crap, I overcommitted!"
"you certainly did. that'll teach you to read oreilly's blog. wait until that module gets written, or write your own."
(reinserting finger into nose) "phew, now I can return to complacency."