HTML 5 Roundup
HTML 5 is still in its infancy and support is limited to a handful of features on a few modern browsers. Recently, Google has said it plans to invest heavily in the new markup specification with the hopes of it becoming the new standard. There is a lot to get excited about but we still have a long way to go before we’ll see wide-spread adoption. So while you’re waiting, here is a roundup of the best HTML 5 resources available right now. Feel free to add any that I may have missed.
- HTML 5 Specification (W3C Editor’s Draft)
- HTML 5 Specification (WHATWG Annotated Working Draft)
- WHATWG HTML 5 Frequently Asked Questions
- HTML 5 Spec Tracker
- HTML 5 on Wikipedia
- HTML 5 Validator
- W3 Schools HTML 5 Reference
- Google IO HTML 5 Demo
- Showcase of sites using HTML 5 markup
- W3C HTML 5 on Twitter
- WHATWG on Twitter
Jeff Doppke
Good list of references. What are your thoughts on XHTML 2.0 and which will be more popular and useful?
Jeff Siarto
I think XHTML 2 might be dead in the water. There are no major browser companies implementing features and all the momentum seems to going toward HTML 5. Also, now that Google has hedged its bet on HTML 5 with Wave (and given that the HTML 5 Spec Editor is a Google employee)—things look bad for XHTML 2.