On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:49 AM, jeffrey morin <[email protected]> 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?
It's a good starter book to introduce you to HTML5. It's not a reference manual just a good starter book. You still should read the W3C spec and get the other book Introduction to HTML5. I will disagree with Jason Grant that it's too early to start using HTML5. Because HTML5 supports the older tags you can start using it today by simply using <!doctype html> that's it and you're site is now considered html5, and if you're site validated for XHTML or HTML prior it should validate for HTML5. Then you can also start coding for HTML5 by doing <div class="section"> where you name the class the HTML5 tag name which will allow you to later find and replace with the real HTML5 tag. This kind of stuff is also covered in Jeremy Keith's book. Also if www.google.com is already using HTML5 (view the source the next time you do a search) then I don't see why you can't start using HTML5. Not to mention if you're building anything for mobile today you'll want to begin with HTML5, IMO. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jason Arnold http://www.jasonarnold.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
