good places to start with HTML5 are:

HTML: The Markup Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/

HTML5 (Edition for Web Authors)
http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view/

regards
stevef


On 17 August 2010 16:18, Jason Grant <[email protected]> wrote:

> A good starting point is the spec itself I would say.
> You shouldn't be going far off with reading the spec or at least skimming
> through it.
> I think W3C now has the 'human optimised' version of the spec and not just
> the browser vendor 900+ page and growing version only.
> Cheers,
> Jason
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:12 PM, David Storey <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>>  On 17 Aug 2010, at 16:49, jeffrey morin wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have an opinion on whether the book, HTML5 FOR WEB DESIGNERS
>> by Jeremy Keith is worth the purchase? I want to learn more about HTML5 but
>> am turned off by the shameless promotion they've done for this book. Does
>> anyone have any suggestions on other books or if this is worth it?
>>
>>
>> Depends what you want it for. I've not read it, but I heard it was a good
>> primer to introduce you to the topic. It is a fairly short book, so doesn't
>> go indepth.
>>
>> There is another book, "Introducing HTML5" - introducinghtml5.com - which
>> is more indepth. It covers the semantics and such in the first half and the
>> JS APIs, Cavas and such in the second half. I've just started reading this,
>> but it is by all accounts a good book. A disclaimer is that I work with one
>> of the authors at Opera.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
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