HTML 5 Resources & Discussion

I wanted to include a series of links at the end of my previous post on HTML 5, but I was afraid they would get lost after such a long post. Here they are:

A new HTML 5 developer group has formed in the Portland area called HTML 5 PDX.

The first meeting was Monday and had a representative from Firefox speaking (Dietrich Ayala) as well as a designer (Bram Pitoyo) who spoke to Safari’s HTML 5 support. Igal Koshevoy posted detailed meeting notes.

• HTML 5 Demos and Example
  Very cool examples of what is possible.
• A Preview of HTML 5
  Good preview, but focuses on semantic markup, not new features.
• HTML 5 Doctor
  New blog intended to help web developers.
• HTML 5 Differences from HTML4
  W3C’s breakdown on what’s new. Like every W3C document, it is detailed.
• HTML 5 structure—HTML 4 and XHTML 1 to HTML 5
  Good explanation of the differences.
• The Power of HTML 5 and CSS 3
  Advanced targeting using CSS 3 and HTML 5’s new semantic markup.
• Google Bets Big on HTML 5: News from Google I/O
  Big picture explanation of why people are excited about HTML 5 from a web application perspective.
• WHATWG
  The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group that defines HTML 5
• WHATWG WIKI FAQs

• Semantics in HTML 5
  Clearest article on the extensibility issues people have with HTML 5.
• XHTML DOA WTF
  Zeldman’s site has been full of information and discussion starting with this post. I’m not going to annotate each of them, but the comments are worth a read if you want to fully understand the issues involved.
• HTML 5: nav ambiguity resolved
• In Defense of Web Developers
• HTML 5 is a Mess
• HTML 5 is a Mess. Now What?
• 12 common problems with HTML 5
  Read this before paying attention to some of the arguments against HTML 5
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the future of XHTML
• An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2
  A good overview of the history of how we ended up with a group outside the W3C developing the next version of HTML.