Which HTML5 tag should I use to mark up an author’s name?

Question

For example of a blog-post or article.

header

09-02-2011
John
My articl         


        

Answer 1

HTML5 has an author link type:

John

The weakness here is that it needs to be on some sort of link, but if you have that there's a long discussion of alternatives here. If you don't have a link, then just use a class attribute, that's what it's for:

John