HTML5 Presentation for Fort Worth Web Design Meetup

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What happened to XHTML?  Why do we now have HTML5?


After creating XHTML 1.0, the World Wide Web Consortium(http://www.w3.org/ ) began developing XHTML 2.0, but it never solved the problems of working with new technologies, such as mobile devices. An organization formed to solve these problems: Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group with the acronym WHATW (http://www.whatwg.org/). The World Wide Web Consortium began to support WHATW in their development of HTML5 and abandoned further development of XHTML.
(HTML5 Digital Classroom, p. 11)

Web Browsers that support HTML5 tags

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 +
Google Chrome 11.0+
Apple Safari 5.0+
Internet Explorer 9.0+
Opera 11.0+
(HTML5 Digital Classroom, p. 3)

New html keywords to create a CSS based layout:

( http://webdesign.about.com/od/html5/a/html_5_whats_new.htm)

Please visit the template example that I have created for you:

html5template.htm

ComputerWorld

(http://www.computerworld.com, an excellent online magazine, regularly includes articles on HTML5.  I would like to recommend the following 2 articles.

Article 1: How to cope with HTML5's dueling standards bodies
Analysis: Savvy IT departments should steer clear of HTML5's two gatekeepers -- W3C and WHATWG -- and concentrate on browsers.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223204/How_to_cope_with_HTML5_s_dueling_standards_bodies?taxonomyId=169&pageNumber=1

Article 2: Three HTML5 animation tools: Adobe Edge, Sencha Animator, Tumult Hype
Web interaction via HTML5 can be promising but difficult to learn. These three applications can make a developer's job simpler.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9223168/Three_HTML5_animation_tools_Adobe_Edge_Sencha_Animator_Tumult_Hype

Works Cited

Team, AGI Creative. HTML5 (Digital Classroom). Hoboken, USA: Wiley, 2011. Print.

"HTML 5 - What's New in HTML 5." Web Design - HTML XML - Web Development - Web Site Design. Web. 03 Feb. 2012.

<http://webdesign.about.com/od/html5/a/html_5_whats_new.htm>.