Getting ready to learn html5

Question

I\'m a desktop application developer, and I plan learning html5, but as it\'s not released, there are (almost) no published books and not too much infomation for beginners on th

Answer 1

If you're already familiar with HTML4, v5 is not terribly different, mostly it adds new elements and attributes, and removes some.

For essential coverage of web standards, I suggest Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards (v3). It's largely theory and background, with little code. I recommend it. There is a sister book by John Allsop, Developing with Web Standards, which I have not (yet) read, but it is supposedly the implementation half of the topic the two books cover.

There is a book in the making by Jeremy Keith, HTML5 for Web Designers, on the new A Book Apart site (backed by the people of An Event Apart, including Jeffrey Zeldman). Jeffrey writes about the new book on his site, and provides links to other related coverage, including Jeremy Keith's take on it.