HTML5 For Web Designers
by Jeremy Keith · first published 2010
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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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HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith
on “Which programming book you just couldn’t stop reading from start to end?” ↗"The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice." The HTML5 spec is current, uses hyperlinks and free. Easy choice.
on “HTML5 For Web Designers (85 Pages)” ↗…http://astore.amazon.com/simplebits-20/detail/1430219203 Handcrafted CSS http://handcraftedcss.com/ It would be worth to check out some about HTML5: Brief but good introduction: http://books.alistapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers Also: http://introducinghtml5.com/ and http://diveintohtml5.org/
on “Ask HN: How to learn Javascript and HTML for devs coming from C++/Java/Python?” ↗…field differently. There's a lot of stuff like that in HTML. If you want a short intro that also explains some of the "why" behind various aspects of HTML5, read this: http://www.abookapart.com/products/html5-for-web-designers The HTML5 spec also has a lot of info ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/grouping-content.html#the-div-ele... ). For example: > Authors are strongly encouraged to view the div element as an element of last…
on “Semantic UI – A language for sharing UI” ↗…might want out of this book. As he mentions in the article, the term "HTML5" has become an abbreviated moniker for a fairly large set of new-ish web technologies and standards. I'd expect a book entitled HTML5 for Web Designers to read more like CSS3 for Web Designers.
on “Review: HTML5 for Web Designers (A List Apart book)” ↗