Building Web Applications with HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript: An Introduction to HTML5 Jason Clark Head of Digital Access & Web Services Montana State University Library pinboard.in #tag pinboard.in/u:jasonclark/t:lita-html5/ twitter #hashtag #litahtml5 Overview • Revolution or Evolution? • New Features and Functions • Demos • Getting Started • Questions Hello, My Name is… • Background, Position • HTML, Programming experience? • Experience with CSS3? • What do you want to learn most? Terms: HTML, CSS, API Does everybody know what these elements are? CSS - style rules for HTML documents HTML - markup tags that structure docs - browsers read them and display according to rules API (application programming interface) - set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/Link.html HTML5 spec from WHATWG “The World Wide Web's markup language has always been HTML. HTML was primarily designed as a language for semantically describing scientific documents, although its general design and adaptations over the years has enabled it to be used to describe a number of other types of documents. The main area that has not been adequately addressed by HTML is a vague subject referred to as Web Applications. This specification attempts to rectify this, while at the same time updating the HTML specifications to address issues raised in the past few years.”