Doctype, HTML 5

Question

i have two questions:

1) was HTML5 released and if yes, when?

2) is doctype HTML 5 in use? or is it better to use one of these: - HTML 4.01 Strict, - HTML 4.

Answer 1

Per a quick google search:

Question 1: yes, On January 22nd, 2008, W3C published a working draft for HTML 5. http://www.w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_html.asp

Question 2: There are a few example html 5 sites to demonstrate what it can do, though they just use : http://html5demos.com/

"Note: HTML 5 is not a W3C recommendation yet! " http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp

Edit: As Marcel Korpel said... a working draft is not an official release.