Learn HTML5 in 5 Minutes! By Jennifer Marsman There’s no question, HTML5 is a hot topic for developers. If you need a crash course to quickly understand the fundamentals of HTML5’s functionality, you’re in the right place. I’ll cover the new semantic markup, canvas for drawing and animation, audio and video support, and how to use HTML5 with older browsers. Might be a bit more than five minutes, but I promise I’ll keep it quick. There’s a great story about a university who, when building their campus, didn’t create any walking paths. A year later, the grass was all worn out where people walked most frequently. It makes perfect sense! The HTML5 new semantic elements were based on that exact same logic (see the W3C design guidance to “Pave the Cowpaths”).
Semantic elements describe their meaning or purpose clearly to the browser and to the developer. Developers commonly use IDs and/or class names with these <div> tags. Here are a few of the new semantic elements in HTML5: But just in case, here’s a visualisation: HTML5 Doctor Resources. Resources to help you get up to speed and produce great HTML5. HTML5 Doctor Articles A comprehensive list of all our articles to cure all your HTML5 ills. View the article archive HTML5 Element Index A complete index of HTML5 elements, each with a short description, code snippet and and often a link to an article with our prognosis.
Explore the Element index HTML5 Sectioning Element Flowchart An easy-to-understand HTML5 sectioning element flowchart to help you get to grips with some of the new elements in HTML5. Download flowchart [PDF] 日本語のフローチャート Dive into HTML5 Sadly, Mark Pilgrim has stopped maintaining this project. Read Dive into HTML5 HTML5 Doctor on GitHub We’ve set up a GitHub profile to share code and invite you to work with us on HTML5 related projects. View our profile on GitHub Recommended HTML5 Books We review books from time to time, but sometimes it takes us a while to get around to writing the review. Appcelerator | Titanium, the leading mobile platform of choice for thousands of companies seizing the mobile opportunity.
HTML5 for desktop application development. HTML5 Rocks - A resource for open web HTML5 developers. Business. HTML5. HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML 4 as of 1997)[2] and, as of December 2012[update], is a candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[3] Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.).
HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but also XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML.[2] History[edit] The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) began work on the new standard in 2004. While HTML5 is often compared to Flash, the two technologies are very different. Standardization process[edit] 2008 – First Public Working Draft 2011 – Last Call 2012 – Candidate Recommendation Plan 2014[edit] Core HTML specification.