Another Friday, another five bucks.

We had great turnout for our discussion of HTML5 on Friday afternoon, Thanks to everyone who attended.

As promised, here is a list of the links visited during the demo of HTML5 and related technologies.

A very short history of the web – from basic text to the equivalent of the printed page

http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

http://web.archive.org/web/19961225070933/http:/www.bestbuy.com/

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/206/206.css&page=0

Examples of HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript – applications in the browser window

http://www.apple.com/html5/

http://radikalfx.com/files/collage/demo.html

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

http://htmlfive.appspot.com/static/gifter.html

http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/

http://html5demos.com/

HTML5 references and browser capability resources

http://diveintohtml5.org/

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_reference.asp

http://caniuse.com/

http://beta.html5test.com/

http://www.findmebyip.com/

http://www.findmebyip.com/litmus/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(Cascading_Style_Sheets)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_layout_engines_(HTML5)

http://html5demos.com/

HTML5 28 Tips

HTML5 Slideshow

CSS3 Generator

HTML5 & CSS3 feature detection and Javascript browser enhancement

http://www.modernizr.com/

http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html

http://remysharp.com/2009/01/07/html5-enabling-script/

http://css3please.com/

http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

Exercise showing the new HTML5 semantic tags in use

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/

New HTML5 Attributes

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_ref_standardattributes.asp

New HTML5 Events

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_ref_eventattributes.asp

New HTML5 Form Elements, Types and Attributes
(Note: Only the Opera browser currently has a noticeable amount of support for these new features)

http://people.opera.com/brucel/demo/html5-forms-demo.html

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_form_input_types.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_form_elements.asp

http://www.w3schools.com/html5/html5_form_attributes.asp

Geolocation
(Note: these demos are only useable on mobile devices for the most part)

http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/geolocation/trip_meter/

http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/225600440

http://developer.practicalecommerce.com/articles/2066-An-Introduction-to-HTML5-Geolocation

Local Storage

http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/webdatabase/todo/

Session Storage

http://demos.w3avenue.com/html5-unleashed-tips-tricks-and-techniques/sample-09-sessionstorage-demo.html

Web Workers

Guide to web workers

http://html5demos.com/worker

http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/225701170

HTML5 Audio Tag

http://code.coneybeare.net/getting-html5-audio-tag-and-flash-fallback-to

http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/audio/quick/

http://html5doctor.com/native-audio-in-the-browser/

HTML5 Video Tag

http://jilion.com/sublime/video

http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody

http://henriksjokvist.net/archive/2009/2/using-the-html5-video-tag-with-a-flash-fallback

HTML5 Canvas Tag

http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/

http://www.canvasdemos.com/

http://html5games.com/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/canvas_tutorial

http://thinkvitamin.com/dev/html-5-dev/how-to-draw-with-html-5-canvas/

http://www.rgraph.net/

http://www.html5rocks.com/

New HTML5 Tags

article
aside
audio
canvas
command
datalist
details
embed
figcaption
figure
footer
header
hgroup
input*
keygen
mark
meter
nav
output
progress
rp
rt
ruby
section
source
summary
time
video

*(input itself is not new but there are so many new input types and attributes that I want to draw attention to those)

Existing tags that have been redefined in HTML5 (some subtly)

!DOCTYPE – simplified, shortened
a – used for hyperlinks ONLY, name is no longer valid attribute, must have href.
address – new rule when address is in article tag
b – stylistically offset
em – stress emphasis
hr – paragraph-level thematic break
i – alternate voice
legend – legend can now be used with figure tag and details tag in addition to fieldset tag
menu – list form controls, no longer deprecated
small – side comments and small print
strong – strong importance

Removed Tags

acronym
applet
basefont
big
center
dir
font
frame
frameset
noframes
s
strike
tt
u
xmp