HTML5 for Web Designers
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The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.
HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in today’s browsers?
In this brilliant and entertaining user’s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.
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6 primary booksA Book Apart
A Book Apart is a 6-book series with 8 primary works first released in 2010 with contributions by Jeremy Keith, Dan Cederholm, and Ethan Marcotte.
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I have been writing HTML for a long while and I'm familiar with the glacial pace of the W3C. For that reason I simply ignored the ongoing progress toward version 5 of HTML.
I should have waited longer. This book was well written and easy to understand for those with a basic understanding of HTML as it is now. Unfortunately a lot of the whiz-bang features working their way into HTML5 aren't supported well enough to implement. A lot. Reading this was kind of like propping your friend up on your shoulders so he can see over the construction fence and describe the unfinished work to you.
Good quick read. Not a whole lot of details about HTML5 specs, but a good overview of new stuff.
