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Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity

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Re: Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity

#11

I used to get upset about it, but now I've just come to accept that when people talk about "HTML5", they don't mean HTML. They mean CSS3, JavaScript, all of the APIs that come with the HTML5 spec, etc. This graphic sums up pretty nicely what "HTML5" actually encompasses: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/HTML5-API...

To me it seems that the HTML5 is a bit feature-creep.The term "HTML5" in layman's eyes is expanded by some new tech every 4-8 months, isn't it?

Re: Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity

#12
post #8

> If there was one programming language I’d recommend to learn for the long-term, it is HTML5. I would recommend going a step further and learning Object Oriented HTML5, no point just learning to program in plain HTML5. /s

I burst a laugh more like a wheezing cough and looked up at the ceiling the moment I read Object Oriented HTML5. Thank you for the /s tag.

Re: Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity

#14
post #8

> If there was one programming language I’d recommend to learn for the long-term, it is HTML5. I would recommend going a step further and learning Object Oriented HTML5, no point just learning to program in plain HTML5. /s

I hear CSS4 will be fully Turing-compatible...

Re: Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity

#15
post #14
post #8

> If there was one programming language I’d recommend to learn for the long-term, it is HTML5. I would recommend going a step further and learning Object Oriented HTML5, no point just learning to program in plain HTML5. /s

I hear CSS4 will be fully Turing-compatible...

I hear CSS4 will be fully Turing-compatible...

I need to go spend some time in the angry dome..

Re: Why You Should Learn HTML5 Now Before It Explodes In Popularity

#16

I feel HTML5 today's "Web 2.0" of a few years ago. It's an overblown term that doesn't really capture what it is. CSS3 is cool. Canvas is cool. More native video is cool, I guess. The other new html elements are... ok... but quite frankily I'm fine with s and changing them to seems annoying more so than helpful. HTML5 doesn't seem to bring anything radically new; most of what it allows could be done before, just with…

I think there is more to it than a buzzword though, the HTML5 way of doing web ie, paving the cow paths is radically different to the methodologies of XHTML, such that the range of technologies to be born/adopted out of that paradigm shift could be thought of as HTML5 era technologies.
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