"HTML5 For Web Designers" by Jeremy Keith was the first book published by A Book Apart and does a good job at setting the tone for this series of useful books from the folks behind A List Apart. Jeremy does a good job at touching on key information such as obsolete tags, accessibility concerns, form enhancements, and semantics. What I was hoping for more of, was how to best begin using HTML5 today. There's a small section at the end of the book called "Using HTML5 Today", but it didn't provide much detail or reason why HTML5 should be used currently. I can imagine some readers reaching the end of this book and saying to themselves "I'll think about HTML5 in a few years after it's widely adopted", while I think it would have been better for the author to have offered more encouragement for people to get their hands dirty now. I have been writing HTML for a long while and I'm familiar with the glacial pace of the W3C. For that reason I simply ignored the ongoing progress toward version 5 of HTML.I should have waited longer. This book was well written and easy to understand for those with a basic understanding of HTML as it is now. Unfortunately a lot of the whiz-bang features working their way into HTML5 aren't supported well enough to implement. A lot. Reading this was kind of like propping your friend up on your shoulders so he can see over the construction fence and describe the unfinished work to you.
Quick and clear intro in HTML 5. It requires some prior basic knowledge in HTML.
—baronz
Very nicely written introduction to HTML5. But just introduction.
—sabrina
Short, relevant overview. Highly worth your time.
—124bharth
concise and to the point. excellent!
—Claudia
Handsome little book
—mel
