If you design web sites, order this book. Informative, fun, direct, clear, practical. It’s everything you want in this kind of book. This is the first book from A Book Apart (from the Zeldman crew who bring you A List Apart). Ships soon, in June.
They put it perfectly:
The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice.
Denny Deaton
on 18 May 10Pre-ordered it a couple weeks ago. Can’t wait!
Paul S
on 18 May 10Already ordered it and I can’t wait to read it. I like the fact that it’s short and its design also looks good. After listening to the “Big Web Show” podcast with Jeremy Keith, I’m sure the content will be rock solid too!
Jimmy Chan
on 18 May 10I thought html5 still in proposed stage. Not finished until 2012.
Michael Rakowski
on 18 May 10Sifting through a bunch of HTML5 resources in the past month is making this book look very attractive. Also, some of the best programming ebooks I’ve read have been very short and focused. 85 pages seems like a good length to cover the fundamentals.
Alex K
on 18 May 10Hi,
thanks for your hint! Will there be a student’s discount or let’s say an eBook version?
Regards, - Alex
Arik Jones
on 18 May 10@JimmyChan,
A lot of the features in the HTML5 spec are somewhat available in browsers right now (namely WebKit and Gecko browsers and the forthcoming IE9). But there is no need to wait until a final spec is released and implemented to start learning HTML5.
Brad Bice
on 18 May 10Pre-ordered my copy. Jeremy on The Big Web Show podcast made a very good case for it.
kyle
on 19 May 10jeremy keith is one of the best on tech. his DOM Scripting book was extremely understandable and easy to read, same with Bullet Proof Ajax. Definitely looking forward to this one as well.
Derek
on 20 May 10If you decide to release an ebook version (on kindle, ibookstore or plain old PDF), I’m in. Not interested in the dead tree version though.
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