Name: HTML5 For Web Designers
ISBN: 9780984442508

HTML5 For Web Designers

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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integratonSep 2013

The HTML in the project is brittle, problematic for consumers and parsers, confusing to developers and designers, and future-unfriendly. I encourage you to spend some time researching the reasoning behind HTML and markup in general, including why it's important to use id and class names that describe the content (rather than the presentation) and HTML elements other than div. They exist for a reason.

Think about this: I can see from the linked page that you understand how adding type="password" to an input makes some consumers, like various web browsers, treat that 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 resort, for when no other element is suitable. Use of more appropriate elements instead of the div element leads to better accessibility for readers and easier maintainability for authors.

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yamilgNov 2010

HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith

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rimantasOct 2010

You cannot go wrong with these which will teach you how to do things "the right way“, not some outdated stuff:

CSS Mastery: http://www.cssmastery.com/

Bulletproof Web Design http://astore.amazon.com/simplebits-20/detail/0321509021

Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook 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/

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earnubsMay 2010

"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.

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mrshoeJul 2010

I wanted to see sections about things like geolocation, drag and drop, Web Storage, Web SQL Database, Web Workers, WebSockets and so on.
Instead I was greeted with this quote in the book:
The [JavaScript] APIs in HTML5 are very powerful. They are also completely over my head. I’ll leave it to developers smarter than me to write about them. The APIs deserve their own separate book.
Fair enough. Those are rather technical subjects and this is an introductory book. I can live with that.

More than this being an introductory book, it's a book for designers. The target audience is neatly contained in the title of the book. This means that developers aren't going to get everything they 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.

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