Course Outline for HTML5 & CSS3

Introducing HTML5

• Exploring prior standards

• Why do we need HTML5?

• HTML5 timeline

• Current HTML5 support

• What HTML5 is (and what it isn't)

What's New in HTML5?

• HTML5 vs. HTML4

• New structural tags

• New content tags

• New application-focused tags

• Deprecated elements

• API overview

Creating HTML5 Documents

• Content models

• Understanding the outline algorithm

• The role of

  tags

• Using ID and class attributes

• DOCTYPE declarations

• Character encoding

Structuring HTML5 Documents

• Basic page structure

• Structuring top-level elements

• Structuring interior content

• Building headers

• Checking document outlines

• Ensuring cross-browser structure

Building Forms in HTML5

• New input types

• Setting form autofocus

• Using placeholder data

• Marking required fields

• Working with number inputs

• Using date pickers

HTML5 API Support

• Canvas overview

• Adding canvas content

• Drawing in the canvas environment

• Drag-and-drop API overview

• Offline applications overview

• Video overview

• Encoding video

• Adding video

Associated Technologies

• Geolocation API overview

• Web storage API overview

• Web sockets overview CSS3 overview

• Enhancing typography with CSS3

• Using @font-face

• Styling HTML5 with CSS3

• Using CSS3 transitions