While it is the most ambitious change to our common tongue, this isn't the first time that HTML has been updated. HTML5 is the latest iteration of this lingua franca. Ments, from Amazon, eBay, and Wikipedia, to personal blogs and websites dedicated to cats that look like Hitler. Using just the simple tags it contains, the human race has cre ated an astoundingly diverse network of hyperlinkcd docu Html is the unifying language of the World Wide Web. Its goal-one it will share with every title in theįorthcoming A Book Apart catalog-is to shed clearlight on a tricky subject, and do it fast, so you can get back to work. Mark up web pages for sense and semantics, and who design accessible interfaces and experiences. There will be even longer secret books for browser makers, addressing technical challenges that you and I are blessed never to need to think about.īut this is a book for you-you who create web content, who There will be 500 page technical books for application developers, whose needs drove much of HTML5's develop ment. There are other books about HTML5, and there will be many more. And he does it in this book, using only as many words and pictures as are needed. Just as he did with the DOM and JavaScript, Jeremy Keith has a unique ability to illuminate HTML5 and cut straight to what matters to accessible, standards-based designer-developers. Born out of dissatisfaction with the pacing and politics of the W3C, and conceived for a web of applications (not just documents), this new edition of the web's lingua franca has in equal measure excited, angered, and confused the web design community. Nothing else, not even "real fonts" or CSS3, has stirred the standards-based design community like the imminent arrival I^ A BOOK APART Briefbooks forpeople who make websitesĬopyright © 2010 by Jeremy Keith All rights reserved Publisher: Jeffrey Zeldman Designer: Jason Santa MariaĮditor: Mandy Brown Technical Editor: Ethan MarcottcĬopyeditor: Krista Stevens ISBN 978-0-984įOREWORD When Mandy Brown, Jason Santa Maria and I formed A Book Apart, one topic burned uppermost in our minds, and there was only one author for the job.
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