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HTML5: The smartphone's best hope?

As a new smartphone user, I'm frustrated with how hard it is to read a conventional web page on the small screen, even with multitouch zoom.

What works well on a smartphone, though, is RSS, since it contains pure content, and no navigation, headers, footers, etc.

Continuing with my previous posting, HTML5's <article> tag could enable smartphone browsers (or maybe a new class of "web readers") to strips out the page-junk and render device-specific visualizations of content that's easy to read -- with no further effort on the part of the content publisher.

(Of course, should a web site wish to better integrate advertising and such, they may still want to create a custom mobile version of their site.)

HTML5: The end of RSS?

I'm arriving late in the game when it comes to HTML5 (too much HTML4 work to come up for air) -- but if I understand <article> and <section> correctly, won't RSS become obsolete?