HTML5 – A Look Ahead
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Lately I have been hearing more about HTML5, so recently I decided to dive in and figure out what it all means. This led to a presentation last night to the techMaine Web Designers User Group.
It’ll be awhile
Bottom line: HTML4 and xHTML will be with us for a long time to come. The HTML5 spec is still a work in progress and browsers still don’t render a lot of the new tags. Still, the possibilities are interesting.
The Takeaway
HTML5 will provide better cross-browser support for Web apps (not just documents like PDFs). Look for mobile devices to make use of the new spec first.
Resources
- HTML5 Specification – Editor’s Draft, 5/19/09
- What is HTML5? – Wikipedia
- HTML5 tags in use by various browser engines
- A Preview of HTML5 – A List Apart, 12/4/07
- Semantics in HTML5 – Issues regarding backward/forward compatibility, A List Apart, 1/6/09
- An Event Apart – Recently redesigned in HTML5 by Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman
- An Event Apart and HTML5 – Eric Meyer discusses the making of AnEventApart.com in HTML5
- Validator.nu – Validation tool for HTML5, used by Eric Meyer in redesigning AnEventApart.com
- HTML5 Shiv – jQuery creator John Resig discusses how to get Internet Explorer 6 & 7 to recognize/render HMTL5 tags using javascript
- Prototyping with the canvas element – David DeSandro discusses how to use the HTML5 <canvas> to draw graphics, like an RSS icon
Presentation
HTML5 – techMaine Presentation 5/18/09
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