HTML5: About Damn Time
Nov 01, 2014
A presentation I wrote for Refresh Savannah on what's new, what works and what we'll have to wait a while for in HTML5. There are some demos for things like the new document semantics, canvas, video and new form elements.
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A Short History Lesson
• HTML 2.0 - 11/1995
• HTML 3.2 - 01/1997
• HTML 4.01 - 12/1999
• XHTML 1.0 - 01/2000
• XHTML 1.1 - 05/2001 (no one uses this)
• XHTML 2? - Dead as of 12/2009
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HTML5: Guerilla
• The What Working Group (http://whatwg.org) was started by Ian Hickson (then at Opera, now at Google).
• Started as a response to what was wrong with XHTML 2 and to move HTML forward.
• HTML5 specs brought into W3C in 03/2007.
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So, What’s New?
• Document sematics
• Form controls
• Canvas
• Audio and Video as first-class citizens
• Offline storage
• Embedded meta data inside elements
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And What’s Gone?
• Presentational elements like font, big, center, etc
• Presentational attributes like bgcolor, border, etc
• Frames, frameset and noframes
• acronym (abbr serves both purposes now)
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A Basic Documenthttp://dev.lawver.net/html5/blank.html
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<!DOCTYPE html><html> <head> <title>My Awesome HTML5 Document</title> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <!--[if IE]> <script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script> <![endif]--> </head> <body>
</body></html>
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Things to See
• The HTML comment at the top must be there or things will look silly in any current version of Internet Explorer
• The DOCTYPE is tiny. Since it’s no longer an “X”, there’s no DTD.
• Other than that, not much is different here, right?
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Document Semantics
• No more divs! (OK, OK, fewer divs)
• Real semantics: header, footer, section, article & aside
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Let’s Make a Blog
• I used Tumblr, because their templating language won’t get in the way.
• It’s live now: http://tedxcreativecoast.com (convenient victim)
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Let’s look at the masthead...
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<header> <h1><a href="/">TEDx Creative Coast</a></h1></header><nav class="pages"> <ul> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/event-details">Event Details</a></li> <li><a href="/speakers">Speakers</a></li> <li><a href="/sponsors">Sponsors</a></li> <li><a href="/about">About TEDx</a></li> <li><a href="/about_tedxcreativecoast">Volunteers and Crew</a></li> </ul></nav>
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Did you notice...
• The header element?
• That I still used an h1?
• That nav is a new element specifically for navigation?
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A Blog Post...http://dev.lawver.net/html5/tedx.html
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<article class="hentry text"><h3><a href="http://tedxcreativecoast.com/post/482465925/musicians-welcome">Musicians Welcome</a></h3>
<div class="entry-content"> ...
</div><details>
<a href="http://tedxcreativecoast.com/post/482465925/musicians-welcome">Permalink</a> | posted 1 day ago </details></article>
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What did you see?
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Here’s what I saw...
• The article element surrounding the post.
• The new details element for displaying meta data about the post.
• I didn’t use another header element around the h3, but I could have.
• Did anyone notice the microformat I snuck in there?
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And the footer...
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<footer> <nav class="pagination"> <ul> <li><details>You are on page 1 of 1.</details></li> <ul> </nav> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="#">Top</a></li> <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/about" title="TEDxCreativeCoast About TED and TEDx">About</a></li> <li><a href="/mobile">Mobile</a></li> <li><a href="/event-details" title="TEDxCreativeCoast Event Details">Event</a></li> <li><a href="/speakers" title="TEDxCreativeCoast Presenters">Speakers</a></li> <li><a href="/sponsors" title="TEDxCreativeCoast Sponsors">Sponsors</a></li> <ul> <p>This independent TEDx event is operated under license from <a href="http://ted.com" target="_blank" title="This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED">TED</a>.</p> </nav> <details class="theme"></details></footer>
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And?
• The shapely footer element, containing...
• multiple nav elements
• and a document-wide details element for document cruft.
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Canvashttp://dev.lawver.net/html5/canvas.html
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• Creates a drawing “area” inside of a document.
• Has a javascript API for adding shapes, and allowing for interactivity
• Feature-rich and complex drawing API.
Drawing the Web Way
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Abstract it all away!
• I use RaphaelJS, which uses Canvas on good browsers and VML in Internet Explorer.
• It abstracts away a lot of the complexity and provides a simple but powerful API.
• http://raphaeljs.com
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Demos!
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Form Elements
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More Data-Specific Inputs!
• We can finally do sliders in the markup
• Colors, URLs, e-mail addresses, names, search queries, telephone numbers, and times and dates all have their own input types now!
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Demohttp://dev.lawver.net/html5/forms.html
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Offline Storage
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Make Your App Offlineable!
• You can create a manifest which gives a list of URLs for your app that declares files to cache, which ones are only available on the network, and fallbacks for failed requests.
• Poor cross-browser implementation so far.
• A lot like the old Google Gears API.
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No DemoBecause it doesn’t work well enough across multiple
browsers to waste time with... yet.
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Audio & Video
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No more plugins!
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Media is a first-class markup citizen now!
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Demohttp://dev.lawver.net/html5/video.html
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The Markup
<video src="movie.m4v" id="my-video"></video><p> <a href="javascript:play_it()">play</a> | <a href="javascript:pause_it()">pause</a></p>
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The Javascript
function play_it() { var video = document.getElementById("my-video"); video.play();}
function pause_it() { var video = document.getElementById("my-video"); video.pause();}
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Problems with video...• There’s a big argument about supported
formats. Safari supports h.264, and Firefox only supports Ogg Theora.
• There are rumors that Google will open sources their video codec, making this stuff moot.
• IE doesn’t support the video element at all.
• Works great on the iPad and iPhone though!
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Microdata
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Microdata is a way to embed meta data inside
of elements.
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Why?
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Turn your HTML documents into your
API!
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Yeah, but we have microformats!
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But, they’re non-trivial to parse and mis-use
some HTML attributes.
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Ok, fine.http://dev.lawver.net/html5/microdata.html
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An Address Card
<ul itemscope itemtype="http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard" class="vcard" itemid="http://lawver.net"> <li itemprop="fn">Kevin Lawver</li> <li><a href="http://lawver.net" itemprop="url" rel="bookmark" class="url">Blog</a></li> <li itemprop="org">Music Intelligence Solutions</li> <li itemprop="title">Chief Architect</li></ul>
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The Big Practical Finish
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What Can I Use Right Now?
• Document semantics (with the HTML5 shiv script for IE), but not if you use javascript to add elements to the DOM!
• Canvas with RaphaelJS
• Offline API in Firefox and Safari
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What Doesn’t Work?
• Most of the new form elements, unfortunately.
• Most of the new DOM API’s
• See http://a.deveria.com/caniuse/ for an up to date list of what works and what doesn’t!
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The Future
• Client-side SQL Storage (works in Safari and Firefox now, with slightly different API’s)
• Microsoft says that IE9 will support HTML5 and hardware-accelerated SVG (Canvas)
• And we didn’t talk about CSS3 at all...
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Resources
• http://adactio.com/extras/slides/html5onlineconf/
• http://diveintohtml5.org
• http://validator.nu
• http://html5doctor.com
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Questions?
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