Resources and required reading

Required reading

Warm-up

• We're entering the decade of the developer
• JS dev's better get their shit together! great blog post on the state of client-side development
• Hold off on deploying HTML5 in websites?
• HTML5: The Facts And The Myths
• HTML5 Periodic Table

Semantics:

• http://html5doctor.com/the-header-element/
• http://html5doctor.com/the-footer-element-update/
• http://html5doctor.com/nav-element/
• http://html5doctor.com/the-section-element/
• http://html5doctor.com/the-article-element/
• http://html5doctor.com/the-hgroup-element/

Forms:

• http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html

Storage:

• http://diveintohtml5.org/storage.html

Drag and Drop:

• http://html5doctor.com/native-drag-and-drop/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DragDrop/Drag_and_Drop

Canvas:

• http://html5doctor.com/an-introduction-to-the-canvas-2d-api/
• http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/html-5-canvas-the-basics/

Video:

• http://html5doctor.com/the-video-element/
• https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Manipulating_video_using_canvas

File API: http://robertnyman.com/2010/04/22/using-the-file-api-for-reading-file-information-multiple-file-uploads-another-sister-specification-to-html5/

W3C Widgets: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/creating-your-first-opera-widget/

WebSocket: http://www.websockets.org/about.html

Related reading: http://happyworm.com/blog/2010/08/23/the-future-of-web-apps-single-page-applications/

Resources

• http://blogs.gartner.com/nick_jones/2010/08/18/mobile-platforms-matter-despite-html5/