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From my understanding, the HTML5 is on browser side. Is there anything need to setup on the server to support HTML5? How do I verify the server fully support HTML5? Thanks.

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I know there are some MIME mappings that need to be setup on the server, but this question may be better answered on stack overflow or superuser. – murisonc Sep 20 '11 at 0:40
Who downvoted this? Might be a better fit on SO, but a downvote's pretty harsh. – gravyface Sep 20 '11 at 0:51
Thanks. I will try ask on SO. I thought I asked the server side question. – garconcn Sep 20 '11 at 1:01
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An HTTP server knows that it's not an expert in parsing HTML like those "browsers" it keeps hearing about; it cares that it's HTML long enough to set the MIME type to text/html and to decide whether it should be compressed and whether it needs to get handled by an external handler, but that's all based on the file extension.

The contents of HTML are of no concern to a web server; no special requirements need to be in place to serve HTML5 content.

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Thank you for the answer. – garconcn Sep 20 '11 at 3:46
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