A Book Apart Brief books for people who make websites

foreword by Jeffrey Zeldman

The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.

HTML5 is the longest HTML specification ever written. It is also the most powerful, and in some ways, the most confusing. What do accessible, content-focused standards-based web designers and front-end developers need to know? And how can we harness the power of HTML5 in today’s browsers?

In this brilliant and entertaining user’s guide, Jeremy Keith cuts to the chase, with crisp, clear, practical examples, and his patented twinkle and charm.

Contents

1. A Brief History of Markup (Read this chapter online)
2. The Design of HTML5
3. Rich Media
4. Web Forms 2.0
5. Semantics
6. Using HTML5 Today

What People Are Saying

• Crack open this book after you fasten your seatbelt in Boston. Before you land in Chicago, you’ll stop worrying and finally, fully understand HTML5. As usual, Mr. Keith takes a complex topic and eloquently describes it for the rest of us.

  —Dan CederholmAuthor of Handcrafted CSS and Bulletproof Web Design

• With superhuman ease and wit, Jeremy Keith always makes the densest technical concepts seem approachable, intuitive, and — dare I say it — fun. He’s done it again with HTML5.

  —Ethan Marcotte Co-author of Designing with Web Standards, Third Edition and Handcrafted CSS

About the Author

Additional Info

• ISBN: 978-0-9844425-0-8
• Paperback: 85 pages
• Also available in: Korean, French