15 July 2009
23 Essential HTML 5 Resources
Editor’s Note: Bruce Lawson will be doing a 1-hour tutorial called “How to build a HTML5 Web site” at the FOWD Tour.
Everyone is excited about the possibilities of HTML 5, but there’s a lot to learn and absorb as well. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of articles to get you started!
- Yes, You Can Use HTML 5 Today! – A great beginning overview of HTML 5
- Wikipedia: HTML 5 – A basic overview from Wikipedia
- HTML 5 Cheat Sheet – A great quick guide to HTML 5 as a printable PDF
- HTML 5 Demos – A great set of demos. Just view the source to see how they work.
- HTML 5 Drag and Drop + Microformats = a whole world of possibilities – An example of how to use Drag-n-Drop in HTML 5
- HTML 5 Gallery – See what’s possible with HTML 5
- HTML 5 Forms Demo – A powerful demo of how forms work in HTML 5
- HTML 5 Doctor – A great general resource on HTML 5
- Headers in HTM 5 – A good article from HTML 5 Doctor on the Header element
- Video elements – A useful article from HTML 5 Doctor on the Video element
- Designing a blog with html5 – A tutorial on how to build a blog in HTML 5
- How to get HTML5 working in IE and Firefox 2 – Another great article from HTML 5 Doctor
- HTML 5 – Draft Standard – The whole spec, in all it’s scary technical detail
- Semantics in HTML 5 – An opinion piece from A List Apart
- Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility – Some quick thoughts on accessibility problems with the Canvas element
- HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved – A post by Zeldman on the HTML 5 Nav element
- A Selection of Supported Features in HTML5 – A great list from Molly about which HTML 5 features are supported by which browsers
- The WHATWG Blog – The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group – the folks working on the HTML 5 spec
- HTML 5 canvas – A great in-depth tutorial on how the HTML 5 Canvas element works
- Native Drag and Drop – A demo of how the Drag-n-Drop functionality works.
- Bespin – A Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology.
- When can I use… – Compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies
- Comparison of layout engines (HTML 5) – A good resource from Wikipedia
People to follow
These are the folks that are at the center of HTML 5 …
- Ian Hickson (@hixie) – Editor of HTML 5 Spec. Currently working at Google.
- Dave Hyatt – Co-creator of Firefox. Worked with Ian Hixie on HTML 5 spec. Working at Apple on the Safari and WebKit team.
- Bruce Lawson (@brucel) – Works for Opera, evangelising open web standards as part of their Developer Relations team. Also a member of the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force.
- Update: The other folks behind HTML 5 Doctor: @Rich_Clark, @Rem, @jackosborne, @akamike and @leads.
- Molly Holzschlag – Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an invited expert to the HTML and GEO working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
- We’re probably forgetting others … please make suggestions in the comments

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Rich Clark
# July 15, 2009 - 8:19 am
Ryan, thanks for the link love to the gallery & doctor sites. A quick pimp to say that they are both on twitter @html5gallery & @html5doctor if you want to follow updates there.
Also you’ve mentioned @brucel from HTML5 Doctor, the rest of us are @Rich_Clark, @Rem, @jackosborne, @akamike & @leads
We’ve got plenty more articles in the pipeline but be sure to mail us or @ reply us any other questions you’ve got and we’ll do our best to answer.
Cheers
bruce
# July 15, 2009 - 10:18 am
Nice links Ryan. Can I just say that, while I work for Opera – which is heavily involved in the HTML 5 specification process – I’m not one of the team actually writing the spec. They are mates of mine and help me with understanding some segments, but I’m not part of that team. (They’re way too brainy for me!)
My interest is as a web developer (before I joined Opera last year I was the technical lead for the Solicitors regulation Authority website http://www.sra.org.uk) so I’m kicking the tyres of the spec from a developer perspective rather than as a spec-head.
Michel
# July 15, 2009 - 10:24 am
Did you miss @zeldman in this list? ;-)
al macmillan
# July 15, 2009 - 12:26 pm
Think ‘Ian Hixie’ is Ian Hickson. His nickname is Hixie
Joel Drapper
# July 15, 2009 - 1:49 pm
Thanks for the links. Very useful!
Andy
# July 15, 2009 - 1:54 pm
From Html5 Twitter Users at wefollow.com/twitter/html5
@brucel
@chanezon
@samruby
@iheni
@laura_carlson
@Rich_Clark
@johnfoliot
@mp3wizard
@adamdecaf
@bluelin77
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# July 15, 2009 - 2:59 pm
Good Job collecting these, Ryan. I’ve been posting updates on HTML5 and CSS 3 on Twitter ( @MrPaladin ) for abt a week now. It’s best to be ahead of the curve on something as fundamental as the HTML standard.
Anyways, thanks for posting this!
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# July 15, 2009 - 5:01 pm
Great list, it could also include
http://htmlfive.appspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/html5
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Jón Grétar Borgþórsson
# July 15, 2009 - 5:07 pm
Don’t forget that YouTube made a HTML5 sample of it’s page. Although it’s Safari 4 only.
* Video is mpeg4.
* Video controls are made in javascript.
* Video thumbnails is mpeg4 with on-mouseover autoplay.
* And of course it uses the new HTML5 elements.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Daan
# July 15, 2009 - 5:10 pm
Too lazy to write an article?
Make a list of links!
Seriously…
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# July 15, 2009 - 6:27 pm
I think Molly is a participant in the CSS WG. She doesn’t seem to be listed as a participant of the W3C HTML WG. Maybe she intends on joining?
http://www.w3.org/2000/09/dbwg/details?group=40318&public=1
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# July 16, 2009 - 6:37 pm
@ Al – Thanks :) I’ll fix that now.
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# July 16, 2009 - 6:43 pm
@ Rich Clark – Thanks for the heads up. I’ve updated the list and added you guys.
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<horn tooting>
HTML5 structure—HTML4 and XHTML1 to HTML5
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</horn tooting>
;-)
peace – oli
(Here’s hoping that works—a note on what code is permitted in comments would be great!)
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# July 17, 2009 - 5:00 am
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# July 17, 2009 - 9:51 am
@ Oli – Thanks bud. I’ll check those out.
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# July 21, 2009 - 11:11 am
Cheers Ryan,
I should also add if you go view this Delicious links (html5gallery) I’ve been bookmarking HTML 5 articles for a while now that might be of interest to people.
Ryan Carson
# July 21, 2009 - 11:23 am
Cheers – I’ll try to check it out!
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