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.

TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

The road from XHTML to HTML5
Design principles of HTML5
Syntax: marking it up your way
Web Forms 2.0—sliders and spinners and color pickers, oh, my!
Canvas: drawing with code
Audio and video
Semantics and extensibility: microformats and boiling the ocean
New and changed HTML elements
New structure elements
New content models
ARIA, styling, and validation
Using HTML5 today—tactics and strategy
Shiny new toys: JavaScript APIs
Feature detection
The future of HTML5