A guide to best books on HTML5, based on articles by Learn Computer / Michael Dorf, WebDesigner Aid and reviews on Amazon.
HTML5, as a new technology, suffers the bandwagon approach; many books are put out about it, and unfortunately the quality suffers occasionally from the publisher’s desire to have a cutting-edge technical book on the market. This loss of quality is not always the case, however, and hopefully these books will help you get up to speed on HTML5 and its use in your own web ventures! – Michael Dorf
Bruce Lawson / Remy Sharp – Introducing HTML5
Rarely is it a joy to read a tech book. Yes, the information you glean may be a wonderful, if it helps you increase your skills, but the book itself can be fairly mundane. This book blows that mold apart. I found myself chuckling my way through it, looking forward to the next little wise-crack. And lest you think it’s a couple good writers without a lot of knowledge–think again. The information is top shelf as Bruce and Remy have been involved with the development of HTML5 and absolutely know their stuff. – (Amazon Reviewer S. Sullivan)
Jeanine Meyer – The Essential Guide to HTML5: Using Games to Learn HTML5 And JavaScript
This book is well written, clearly explaining everything. It’s absolutely written for people with no prior or little programming experience. I liked the use of a table to explain the code line by line. It’s the first book I’ve read using this approach.
A lot of concepts are repeated in several chapters. I think this is a good thing for people with some or no programming experience. Besides this makes it easy to skip around. The book clearly showcases the new features of HTML5. – (Amazon reviewer Kees Overboom)
Joseph W. Lowery / Mark Fletcher – HTML5 24-Hour Trainer
Whether you are relatively inexperienced with HTML or you have work on website design for years, this book has something to offer. For starters, the authors have done an outstanding job to get you familiar with basic HTML and have plenty of working examples to practice with. For more experienced readers, you can quickly find the new features of HTML5 and try out them. The chapters are laid out in a gradual incline fashion that makes reading this book almost effortless. In about 300 pages, this book is a good starting point for learning HTML5.
As with any book dealing with constant changing standards, the materials covered in the book is subject to the changes of browser versions and new W3C standards. I found a few items, such as Input control type “date” has already shown difference in various browsers. This is to be expected for a cutting-edge, rapidly changing technology. Overall, I have enjoyed reading and learning from this book. – (Amazon reviewer Andy Zhang)
HTML5 and CSS3: Develop With Tomorrow’s Standards Today
You can learn the basic new features of HTML5 and CSS3 from a lot of freely available resources. However, this book is invaluable because it goes beyond simply laying out how to use the new features and syntax, focusing more on how to practically use them to better a user’s experience on your website. It doesn’t simply subscribe mindlessly to the hype surrounding HTML5.
Even more importantly, each feature has a “Falling Back” section that describes how to implement the feature outside of HTML5/CSS3 on browsers that do not yet support it (usually using JavaScript) or how to otherwise best gracefully degrade. (Amazon reviewer Andrew D. Lindeman).
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