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Chapter 1 of "Dive into HTML5" the on-line version of Mark Pilgrim's book that will eventually be published as HTML5: Up and Running by Google Press to be published by O'Reilly. I've linked this because it's a very nice potted history of how HTML came to be.
" It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally. The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags and namespaces all at once didn't work." Tim Berners Lee announcing that W3C was dropping development of XHTML 2 to concentrate on the development of HTML5.
Brad Neuberg from Google Developer Programs gives an introduction to HTML 5 to the developers at Yahoo!
Web accessibility tools and resources: features an accessibility blog and interesting tools to generate accessible code for web pages, forms, CSS-based navigation "list-o-matic", and jQuery functions. Lots to explore.
Draft standard (Edited by Ian Hickson of Google, Last Updated 18-Feb-2010): "This specification evolves HTML and its related APIs to ease the authoring of Web-based applications. The most recent additions include a device element to enable video conferenc
The draft recommendation of the forthcoming HTML 5 standard: a standard that finally recognizes that the web is much more than a document mark-up! Supported in Safari 4+, Opera, Firefox 3.1+.
Molly Holzschlag discusses the current state of the art in the web standards community and likens it to Dante's Inferno.
Interesting set of web pages on opera.dev on web standards covering history, web design, html. Form opera.dev with hopefully more to come. Acknowledgements to Molly @ molly.com http://tinyurl.com/6hak2r. Could be a good source of course materials.
Lachlan Hunt provides a brief preview of some of the new features of HTML 5 the emerging w3C standard that will be the basis of future web applications (when browser support becomes available). Good basis for a lecture.
"This document illustrates how to write HTML 5 documents, focussing on simplicity and practical applications for beginners while also providing in depth information for more advanced web developers. "
"... This document describes the set of guiding principles used by the HTML Working Group for the development of HTML5. The principles offer guidance for the design of HTML in the areas of compatibility, utility and interoperability."
W3C document which summarizes differences between HTML 4 (and by implication XHTML 1) and HTML 5. Last accessed as a working draft updated 9th June 2008.
"I'd like to live in a world [...] where version targetting wasn't needed. Designing with web standards ought to be enough, and anyone who works on websites should know how to do it." Discusses version targetting in IE8. Jeffry Zeldman at "A List Apart".
Lead to a Jeffry Zeldman "List Apart" Article on the new "standards" mode of IE8 by Jack Schofield on Guardian Technoloy Blog.
This specification defines Web Forms 2.0, an extension to the forms features found in HTML4's Forms chapter and the corresponding DOM2 HTML interfaces.
W3C Working Draft last published 27 September 2006, that describes an ongoing attempt to standardise the JavaScript XMLHttpRequest object that is the Ajax "engine".
Eric Meyer is an authority on CSS who is widely published and well respected in the web community. This is his home page cum blog. He also wrote the S5 slide system that I used to create the presentations used in this module.
"This specification defines the Document Object Model Level 1, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. "
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
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