An introduction to HTML5, including a background of why it's needed and some of the major new features.

2. Why do we need HTML5?

3. HTML4 was published 1997

4. Yes… 1997

7. <xml />

9. XML != robustness

13. WHATWG

14. W3C <3 WHATWG

16. [X] First Working Draft in October 2007. [X] Last Call Working Draft in October 2009. [ ] Call for contributions for the test suite in 2011. [ ] Candidate Recommendation in 2012. [ ] First draft of test suite in 2012. [ ] Second draft of test suite in 2015. [ ] Final version of test suite in 2019. [ ] Reissued Last Call Working Draft in 2020. [ ] Two complete and bug-free implementations in 2022.

17. So, what is then HTML5?

18. Parser model

19. New elements

21. Updated forms

23. From http://diveintohtml5.org/forms.html

24. Video/audio

25. Canvas

26. Web sockets

27. Geolocation

28. Cross domain messaging

29. Offline support Local storage

30. Web workers

31. Further reading http://diveintohtml5.org https://developer.mozilla.org/En/HTML http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec http://html5demos.com/

32. http://github.com/protocol7/html5-demos http://github.com/protocol7/node.websocket.js

33. Questions?