Structure with HTML5
Thu, Feb 10, 2011
Class Overview
In this second class we look at semantic markup and structure conventions for web content. Specifically we will look at HTML5, XML, JSON, and Microformats.
Resources
- HTML5 Logo
- Free Dive Into HTML5 Online Book by Mark Pilgrim
- A Book Apart HTML5 Book by Jeremy Keith
- HTML5 Spec
- HTML5 Tag Reference
- HTML5 Cheat Sheet
- W3Schools HTML5 Tutorials
- Think Vitamin HTML5 Video Tutorials
- Cross Browser Support for HTML5 (Scroll Past CSS3)
- Test Your Browser's Support for HTML5
- W3Schools for XML
- XML Versus JSON
- WikiPedia Overview of JSON
Homework
Markup the content you gathered using HTML5 tags. Think about making your markup as semantic as possible without being bloated. Do not apply any styling to the web page. We’ll review your markup decisions in the gallery walk before the next class so come ready to defend your markup choices.

