Extra Future[A new initiative from the W3C:][link]
>Web Platform Docs is a new community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and authoritative source for web developer documentation.
[link]: http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Main_Page “WebPlatform Docs”
[Liza Daly takes a look at how iBooks does and doesn’t adhere to the ePub specification][link]. With actual code samples and examples of “broken” files.
[link]: http://blog.threepress.org/2010/04/05/ibooks-and-epub/ “iBooks and ePub : Threepress Consulting blog”
[The list][link] includes [HTML5][html5], [HTML+RDFa][htmlrdf], [HTML Microdata][data], [HTML Canvas 2D Context][canvas], [HTML5 Differences from HTML4][diff] and [HTML: The Markup Language][html].
[link]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Mar/0137.html “HTML WG Working Drafts have been published from Maciej Stachowiak on 2010-03-04 (public-html@w3.org from March 2010)”
[html5]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/ “HTML5”
[htmlrdf]: http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-in-html/ “HTML+RDFa”
[data]: http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/ “HTML Microdata”
[canvas]: http://www.w3.org/TR/2dcontext/ “HTML Canvas 2D Context”
[diff]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/ “HTML5 Differences from HTML4”
[html]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/ “HTML: The Markup Language”
[You can always count on Zeldman to say things like][link]
>As the percentage of web users on non-Flash-capable platforms grows, developers who currently create Flash experiences with no fallbacks will have to rethink their strategy and start with the basics before adding a Flash layer. They will need to ensure that content and experience are delivered with or without Flash.
But it’s still good to have him say them.
[link]: http://www.zeldman.com/2010/02/01/flash-ipad-standards/ “Flash, iPad, Standards – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report”
[Jeremy Keith explains some of the problems of perception in the recent XHTML2/HTML5 showdown][link]. If you’ve been confused thus-far, let this be your panacea.
[link]: http://adactio.com/journal/1595/ “Adactio: Journal—Misunderstanding markup”
[The points he makes are good ones, and I agree with most of them][link]. The comments are pretty lively on this one, but seem civilized.
[link]: http://mezzoblue.com/archives/2009/04/20/switched/ “mezzoblue § Switched”