Book Review: HTML5 for Web Designers
HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith is a book I pre-ordered when it was first announced and I finally got around to reading it last week. I got it because it looked short & sweet, A List Apart does great work, and up until that point I didn’t know much about HTML5.
HTML5 for Web Designers is a lite (85 page) read that covers the more important points of HTML5, the latest and greatest iteration of the markup language that makes the web a hoppin’ hang out. The book is very well written, and does not read like an overview of a spec. It’s conversational, quirky, and  informative. It also got me very excited about HTML5.
Keith gives us a little historical background on not only HTML5, but HTML in general, and in a bit more detail, the “war” between XHTML 2.0 and HTML5. Anyone who’s spoken ill about either should absolutely read that part of the book. Then he gets into the crux of the matter: the new stuff in HTML5. He doesn’t only cover mark-up either; he goes into detail about the semantics of it all (which, for anyone who knows me, knows that makes me very happy). Finally, he talks about how we can implement some of the new stuff now.
I’d strongly recommend the book for anyone who uses HTML (or XHTML) as this will become the de-facto standard for making web apps in the not-to-distant future.