Even though HTML5 has been around for years, it is only over the last few months that it started to become a new web favorite.

HTML5 This includes several new features: it allows animations and provides a highly customisable video player without Flash, a new backwards compatible doctype and a few new taglines that simplify parts of the coding.

More and more developers are adapting their sites and pages to feature HTML5 coding, and it is only a matter of time now before this standard will become widely used.

Below you can check out 5 top HTML5 sites online.

en.opera.se - Scandinavians are always a step forward. This is the stylish site of the Göteborg’s Opera House, rich of media content, and powerful visuals. A great example of a HTML5 work.

html5readiness.com - Great site dedicated to hml5 and css3 evolution and features.

spaghettiphp.org - a framework dedicated to help programmers with powerful tools to make coding easier.

8weekgame.shawson.co.uk/ManicSpaceman - a really great game built featuring HTML5 - You are an astronaut that crashed his spaceship on an alien planet, and needs to get back to the wreckage of the ship.

lesmads.de/blogs/okcool - German fashion sine OK cool provides a visually strong, yet simple and user friendly interface, fast loading pages and straight-forward design.