23 Essential HTML 5 Resources

Posted by studiodm in Blog      6 comments

Mar
9

Everyone is excited about the possibilities of HTML 5, but there’s a lot to learn and absorb as well. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of articles to get you started!

1. Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today! – A great beginning overview of HTML 5
2. Wikipedia: HTML 5 – A basic overview from Wikipedia
3. HTML 5 Cheat Sheet – A great quick guide to HTML 5 as a printable PDF
4. HTML 5 Demos – A great set of demos. Just view the source to see how they work.
5. HTML 5 Drag and Drop + Microformats = a whole world of possibilities – An example of how to use Drag-n-Drop in HTML 5
6. HTML 5 Gallery – See what’s possible with HTML 5
7. HTML 5 Forms Demo – A powerful demo of how forms work in HTML 5
8. HTML 5 Doctor – A great general resource on HTML 5
9. Headers in HTM 5 – A good article from HTML 5 Doctor on the Header element
10. Video elements – A useful article from HTML 5 Doctor on the Video element
11. Designing a blog with html5 – A tutorial on how to build a blog in HTML 5
12. How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2 – Another great article from HTML 5 Doctor
13. HTML 5 – Draft Standard – The whole spec, in all it’s scary technical detail
14. Semantics in HTML 5 – An opinion piece from A List Apart
15. Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility – Some quick thoughts on accessibility problems with the Canvas element
16. HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved – A post by Zeldman on the HTML 5 Nav element
17. A Selection of Supported Features in HTML5 – A great list from Molly about which HTML 5 features are supported by which browsers
18. The WHATWG Blog – The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group – the folks working on the HTML 5 spec
19. HTML 5 canvas – A great in-depth tutorial on how the HTML 5 Canvas element works
20. Native Drag and Drop – A demo of how the Drag-n-Drop functionality works.
21. Bespin – A Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology.
22. When can I use… – Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies
23. Comparison of layout engines (HTML 5) – A good resource from Wikipedia