Review: Written for Web Programmers and Designers
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2013
This book is an overview of the important features that will be included in the new HTML standards. As with most O'Reilly publications, it is written with programmers and other web professionals in mind rather than for the general public.The author seems to be especially impressed with several new elements that extend the language in the areas of media such as audio and video. He also spends time discussing the ease with which a web designer and programmer will be able to pull content from external websites and manipulate this data or content. He advocates more sharing of content resources amongst sites including media and sections of code.As a sometimes web programmer, I would have appreciated some code samples implementing and highlighting some of these new features to get a better feel for how they might be used and how they could be an improvement over the way things have been done under the current language standards. Since this ebook is actually a sample article rather than a full-blown, in-depth book on the new HTML5, I suppose we'll see these coding examples only in the full book.Recommended for a technically experienced audience.