Web Developer Basics: Learning About Html5
Web Developer Basics: Learning About HTML5
HTML5 standards define new functionality that is being embraced by most of the key web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. In this ebook, you will be introduced to the basic features of HTML5 that you can use within your web sites now.
TML5, depending on who you listen to, may be either a disruptive new technology that has the potential to bring entire companies to their knees, or a smooth transition from current HTML 4.0 that promises to make life much easier for developers. Both are at least partially true, and in this continuing series, I hope to help you make sense out of HTML5: both business sense and nuts-and-bolts coding-level sense.
HTML5 is most definitely a work in progress. It began to take shape back in 2004, and the official specification may not be actually complete until the year 2022! But HTML5 is already here, in everything from your current desktop browser to your new smartphone, so there’s no problem with getting started.
So Let’s Get Started with HTML5
Perhaps the most important thing to understand about HTML5 is not the coding details and changes themselves, but the high-level functions they give you access to. In fact, HTML5 is all about high-level functions rather than details. For instance, instead of thinking of multimedia objects and then defining them as video or audio and so on, in HTML5 you can simply write something like: Here’s my video
This functional methodology extends even to typical page coding. We’re all used to writing complex pages in terms of low-level objects like , which is kind of amorphous and easy to lose track of. So we often attempt to keep track of things by coding like this:
In HTML5, we can cut right to the chase. We’re writing a header, and now we can code it that way: Web Developer Basics: Learning About HTML5 by David Fiedler
So what, you might say at this point. Well, it’s not just the header of a page that we can now view as a complete
HTML5 standards define new functionality that is being embraced by most of the key web browsers, including Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. In this ebook, you will be introduced to the basic features of HTML5 that you can use within your web sites now.
TML5, depending on who you listen to, may be either a disruptive new technology that has the potential to bring entire companies to their knees, or a smooth transition from current HTML 4.0 that promises to make life much easier for developers. Both are at least partially true, and in this continuing series, I hope to help you make sense out of HTML5: both business sense and nuts-and-bolts coding-level sense.
HTML5 is most definitely a work in progress. It began to take shape back in 2004, and the official specification may not be actually complete until the year 2022! But HTML5 is already here, in everything from your current desktop browser to your new smartphone, so there’s no problem with getting started.
So Let’s Get Started with HTML5
Perhaps the most important thing to understand about HTML5 is not the coding details and changes themselves, but the high-level functions they give you access to. In fact, HTML5 is all about high-level functions rather than details. For instance, instead of thinking of multimedia objects and then defining them as video or audio and so on, in HTML5 you can simply write something like: Here’s my video
This functional methodology extends even to typical page coding. We’re all used to writing complex pages in terms of low-level objects like , which is kind of amorphous and easy to lose track of. So we often attempt to keep track of things by coding like this:
In HTML5, we can cut right to the chase. We’re writing a header, and now we can code it that way: Web Developer Basics: Learning About HTML5 by David Fiedler
So what, you might say at this point. Well, it’s not just the header of a page that we can now view as a complete