25+ Great HTML 5 Resources to Get You Started

HTML 4 has been around for nearly a decade now, and much have happened since HTML 4 landed. The way we use the Internet have taken dramatic turns and the I think the most significant turn is the trend of desktop applications and games going online running in browsers. Many people don’t use email clients any more and simply use online services as gmail or hotmail. The average Internet user today expect seamless embedded media, flexibility, responsiveness, ease of use (usability), off line capabilities etc. in ways we couldn’t imagine 5-10 years ago. Keeping up with users demans isn’t always as easy as it should be and this is where HTML 5 is expected to kick in with a helping hand.

HTML 5 introduces many new interesting elements for example canvas that makes it possible to do new exciting things from javascript, that make it much easier to structure pages and new elements that significantly improve the use of video and autio. We are all excited about the possibilities going to offered in HTML 5 and to get hand on with some of them but there’s a lot to learn and HTML 5 is still in draft status. This means only a few of the new elements have been implemented in latest browsers and you need to be careful how to approach this. Knowing that HTML 5 will eventually hit us keeping track with the new goodies coming up and how HTML 5 develops can’t be waste of time – and even fun. According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead.

In this article tripwire magazine provides you with the resources you need to get overview of what HTML 5 is, to get started and to understand how you can benefit from it at this early point in time. [Detail]

Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip

Since the official announcement of W3C to stop working on the development of XHTML 2 in the end of 2009 and increase resources on HTML 5 instead, there has been a lot of confusion and various debates about the “proper”markup language for modern and future web-development. With XHTML 1.0, XHTML 2, HTML 4, HTML 5 and XHTML 5 we have so many languages that it’s really getting hard to keep track! [Detail]

HTML5 and The Future of the Web

Some have embraced it, some have discarded it as too far in the future, and some have abandoned a misused friend in favor of an old flame in preparation. Whatever side of the debate you’re on, you’ve most likely heard all the blogging chatter surrounding the “new hotness” that is HTML5. It’s everywhere, it’s coming, and you want to know everything you can before it’s old news. [Detail]

Four Methods to Create Equal Height Columns

Back when tables were used for layouts, creating equal height columns was very simple. All you had to do was create three cells in a row and you have a layout with equal height columns. The method for creating equal height columns isn’t as straightforward when you use CSS for layouts. [Detail]

HTML 5 and CSS 3: The Techniques You’ll Soon Be Using

In this tutorial, we are going to build a blog page using next-generation techniques from HTML 5 and CSS 3. The tutorial aims to demonstrate how we will be building websites when the specifications are finalized and the browser vendors have implemented them. If you already know HTML and CSS, it should be easy to follow along. [Detail]

10 HTML Tag Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit

You better watch out, because the HTML police are about. They scour your code and pick out the most unspeakable crimes against HTML markup. This handy list of ten HTML tag crimes sheds some light on some of the most common coding mistakes and helps provide an alternate solution. Tips include writing valid markup, making semantic choices, avoiding deprecated tags and more! [Detail]

HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

XHTML is dead, long live HTML 5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop work end of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely supported until 2022, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted within the foreseeable future. [Detail]

10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know

Web developers these days are often expected to know and work in multiple languages. As a result, it’s tricky to learn everything a language has to offer and easy to find yourself not utilizing the full potential of some more specialized but very useful tags.

Unfortunately we haven’t been tapping into the full potential of these more obscure HTML tags as of late. But it’s never too late to get back into the game and start writing code that taps into the power of some under-used tags.

Here are ten of some of the most underused and misunderstood tags in HTML. While they might be less familiar, they’re still quite useful in certain situations. [Detail]