HTML5 Research Summary

As we all have realized by now, HTML5 is the newest version of "Hypertext Markup Language" used to build all of the websites and pages on the internet. The features added to HTML5 are generating quite a bit of excitement about the possibilities of the new age of web design.

Two of the most talked about new additions are the markup tags for < * audio * > and < * video * >. These tags allow for media to be played within a browser window without the use of plug-ins such as Flash and Silverlight. Terrence O'Brien's "What is HTML5, and Why Should You Care? " and Jay Yarow's "Everything You Need to Know about HTML5 and Why You Should care About It's War With Flash" are both very good articles which explain how and why HTML5 is being promoted as the thing that will eliminate, or at least greatly decrease the use of, Flash in web design.

Apparently, what the non-tech savvy web user doesn't know is that all of those plug-ins that are required to play Flash coded content are slowing down browsers and devouring the battery life of laptops everywhere.

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There is an ENORMOUS amount of information on the web regarding HTML5 but here is a list of some of the things that I've read and have found useful and informative. I will post more links as I continue researching. :

• "What is HTML5?" — http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1873-What-Is-HTML-5-
• "What is HTML5 and Will It Kill Flash?" — http://www.taranfx.com/what-is-html-5-and-faq-will-it-kill-flash
• "What is HTML5?" — http://minutebio.com/blog/2010/01/25/what-is-html-5/
• "What is HTML5?" — http://whatishtml5.net/
• "How HTML5 Will Shake Up the Web" — http://www.technologyreview.com/web/25838/?a=f
• "Guide to HTML5 Hiccups" — http://www.zeldman.com/superfriends/guide/
• "HTML5 - Next Generation of Hypertext"
  http://www.cruzine.com/2011/02/01/html5-generation-hypertext/ Discusses the new features and capabilities of HTML5. There's also a graphic showing the difference in markup structure from HTML4 to HTML5
• "HTML5 differences from HTML4" - http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/
• "30+ HTML5 Tutorials for Web Designers" - http://ntt.cc/2010/06/03/30-useful-html5-tutorials-for-web-designers.html Includes "how-to's" for creating a backward compatible one-page portfolio with HTML5 and CSS3, coding an HTML5 layout from scratch, a video tutorial on HTML5, among other things that may prove useful for us as a class.