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...
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.
Coding was my foray into web design. I would not be a designer today had I not learned HTML and CSS. Over the years I started to focus on other aspects of design and started to code less and less. I had been looking forward to HTML5 and was planning to get back into coding and this book was the perfect way to get reacquainted with the state of HTML and what's new with the new emerging standard. I particularly liked how it explains the messy transition from previous versions of HTML and XHTML to HTML5. I highly recommend it. Note: This is not a book to learn how to code. This is to situate you on the language and its potential, which makes this no less essential.
A list of the books I've read - and would keep - on my bookshelves, books I'd recommend unreservedly. I'm trying to think here of 'has this book changed the way I work', rather than simply 'is this UX or not?'
The following are books we have read for the UX Book Club in NYC since 2009. To join our group and find out about new books we are reading please visit. http://www.meetup.com/UX-Book-Club-NYC/
