Introduction to HTML5
http://people.w3.org/mike sideshowbarker on Twitter, etc.
I work for the W3C in Japan, based at Keio University near Tokyo
My ofcial W3C title is: Special Missions Subsection Junior Interim Floor Manager
Where to start learning about HTML5?
HTML5 differences from HTML4
http://w3.org/TR/html5-diff/
Tutorials and how-to guidance
Dive into HTML5
http://diveintohtml5.org/
The HTML5 Doctors
http://html5doctor.com/
Alternative authoring references
HTML5 (Author Edition)
http://dev.w3.org/html5/ spec-author-view
HTML5: The Markup Language
http://dev.w3.org/html5/ markup
HTML5 differences
MathML and SVG integration New elements/attributes added
Syntax simplications
Removed old elements/attributes Added new APIs for scripting
Syntax simplications
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<!doctype html>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">
<meta charset="Shift_JIS">
New elements
<canvas> (scriptable image) <ruby> (annotations) <article>, <section>, <header> <details>, <progress>, more...
<video> & <audio> (no plugins)
New attributes
contenteditable (editable pages) spellcheck (catch spelling errors)
draggable (drag-and-drop)
new form attributes (for client-
side validation, plus new form controls such as date picker, etc.)
Elements and attributes removed or obsoleted
<a name> more...
<frame>, <frameset>
New APIs for scripting
2D drawing API for <canvas> getElementsByClassName() innerHTML more...
API for <video> & <audio>
HTML design principles
http://w3.org/TR/html-design-principles/
HTML design principles
Ensure interoperability Precisely dene UA behavior Handle errors (non-draconian) Evolution not revolution
Support existing content
Important point: HTML5 includes XHTML
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the future of XHTML
http://w3.org/2009/06/xhtml-faq.html
About error handling...
Which of these are errors?
Well-formed XML:
<input disabled="disabled"/>
Empty attribute: <input disabled>
Without quotes: <input value=yes>
Single quotes: <input type='checkbox'/>
Double quotes: <input name="be evil"/>
This is a real error
<i><b>misnested tags</i></b>
HTML5 denes how browsers can handle real errors interoperably and gracefully.
Why is it important to handle errors?
More than 93% of Alexa Top 500 sites contain are not conformant XHTML
We need to specify error handling behavior to ensure interoperability even in the face of documents that do not comply to the letter of the specifications.
Authors will write invalid content regardless of what we spec. So the spec states what authors must not do, and then tells implementors what they must do when an author does it anyway.
HTML5 Validator
http://validator.nu
The Open Web Platform.
Formats: HTML, CSS, SVG, ARIA, even JavaScript
The server side can be considered a black box.
The open Web platform also includes APIs.
Device-independent, language-independent APIs.
APIs that browsers expose to Web applications on the client-side
Open Web Platform = formats + APIs
(formats=HTML, CSS, SVG, etc.)
HTML5: The Web platform as an application development/ runtime environment
Other app-dev environments:
iPhone SDK, Android SDK, J2ME/MIDP, BREW, Symbian,Flash
APIs spun off HTML5
(Canvas 3D API: WebGL*) Web Storage API Indexed Database API (non-SQL)
Canvas 2D Context API
APIs spun off HTML5
Web Workers API Web Messaging APIs (cross-doc/
postmg + channel messaging) Server-Sent Events
WebSocket API + Protocol; &
Formats related to HTML5
Microdata + Microdata API & RDFa + RDFa API to Web apps)
WAI-ARIA1.0 (add accessibility
APIs spun off HTML5
Canvas 3D API: WebGL * Web Storage API Indexed Database API (non-SQL)
Canvas 2D Context API
Other APIs
Device Orientation +
Geolocation Compass
Drop)
File API (w/ HTML5 Drag &
Other APIs
DOM Level 3 Events DOM4 + Element Traversal
Selectors API
Other APIs
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
XMLHttpRequest 1.0 & 2.0
HTML5, CSS3, etc., feature detection
http://modernizr.com/
HTML5 milestones 2010
We aim to have HTML5 start
Last Call (LC) in 2010
spec is feature complete all HTML WG issues resolved
To start Last Call:
HTML5 milestones 2010
collect comments from
community
To get to end of Last Call:
respond to all comments
Thats it.
Thank you.
