Introduction to HTML5

Participants of the training will gain knowledge on:

•     Creating pages in HTML5
•     The main advantages of HTML5
•     The differences between HTML5 and HTML4
•     The new elements and attributes of HTML5
•     Handling audio and video media in HTML5
•     Creating forms
•     Web Storage for offline applications

Introduction

• Background
• Audience
• Scope
• History
• Design notes
• HTML vs XHTML
• Structure of this specification
• A quick introduction to HTML
• Conformance requirements for authors
• Recommended reading

Common infrastructure

• Terminology
• Conformance requirements
• Case-sensitivity and string comparison
• UTF-8
• Common microsyntaxes
• URLs
• Fetching resources
• Common DOM interfaces
• Namespaces

Semantics, structure, and APIs of HTML documents

• Documents
• Elements
• APIs in HTML documents
• Interactions with XPath and XSLT
• Dynamic markup insertion

The elements of HTML

• The root element
• Document metadata
• Scripting
• Sections
• Grouping content
• Text-level semantics
• Edits
• Embedded content
• Tabular data
• Forms
• Interactive elements
• Links
• Common idioms without dedicated elements
• Matching HTML elements using selectors

Loading Web pages

• Browsing contexts
• The Window object
• Origin
• Session history and navigation
• Browsing the Web
• Offline Web applications

Web application APIs

• Scripting
• Base64 utility methods
• Timers
• User prompts
• System state and capabilities: the Navigator object

User interaction

• The hidden attribute
• Activation
• Focus
• Assigning keyboard shortcuts
• The contenteditable attribute
• Spelling and grammar checking
• Drag and drop
• Editing APIs

The HTML syntax

• Writing HTML documents
• Parsing HTML documents
• Serializing HTML fragments
• Parsing HTML fragments
• Named character references

The XHTML syntax

• Writing XHTML documents
• Parsing XHTML documents
• Serializing XHTML fragments
• Parsing XHTML fragments

Rendering

• Introduction
• The CSS user agent style sheet and presentational hints
• Replaced elements
• Bindings
• Frames and framesets
• Interactive media
• Print media

Obsolete features

• Obsolete but conforming features
• Non-conforming features
• Requirements for implementations

IANA considerations

• text/html
• text/html-sandboxed
• application/xhtml+xml
• text/cache-manifest