A history of HTML & CSS, and Preview of HTML5 and CSS3, and overview of the future.

1. <title> HTML 5 & CSS 3 </title>

2. HTML Pre-History General Markup Language (GML) was developed at IBM in the 1960's by Charles F. Goldfarb :h1.Chapter 1: Introduction :p.GML supported hierarchical containers, such as :ol :li.Ordered lists (like this one), :li.Unordered lists, and :li.Definition lists :eol. as well as simple structures. :p.Markup minimization (later generalized and formalized in SGML), allowed the end-tags to be omitted for the "h1" and "p" elements. http://www.sgmlsource.com/history/roots.htm

3. HTML Pre-History Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) was derived from GML in the 1980's. SGML was the pre-cursor to both HTML and XML. SGML defined the user of angle brackets for tags. <example>

4. HTML Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) was first defined by Tim Berners-Lee in 1991 Original HTML had 20 tags and displayed simple text with basic markup for formatting.

5. HTML 2, 3, and 4 HTML 2 added many of the attributes we know today such as images, forms, input. HTML 3 added new tags that had been part of minor revisions. HTML 4 extended the number of tags. Currently most HTML is 4.01

7. CSS History CSS 1 was proposed in 1995 as a way to style documents. It contained descriptions for font, background and other style tags. CSS 2 is the version we currently use added positioning and other elements.

8. Web Usability Then Mid-Late 1990's web forms started to show up with web applications. Late 1990's JavaScript added further interaction. 2000's AJAX and Flash started to provide richer internet applications.

9. Web Usability Now Increased emphasis on making the web as rich an interface as native applications. The mobile web is the next frontier. Current Technologies are dated and are hindering growth.

10. HTML 5 and CSS3 to the Rescue HTML5 and CSS3 are the next generation of markup that will drive the web. What is the difference between HTML4 and HTML 5?

11. Structure Tags <header> - Header <nav> - Navigation, Menu (Primary Navigation) <section> - Seperation Element <article> - Article Content <aside> - Sidebars, Widgets, Misc non primary content <footer> - Footer <header> and <footer> tags may be used multiple times. Example in Sections, and in the main page.

12. Structure <header> <section> <aside> <nav> <header> <article> <footer> <footer>

13. New Inputs * tel (Telephone) * search * url * email * datetime * date * month * week * time * datetime-local * number * range (slider) * color

14. Inputs Mobile Display Tel Number Email

15. Canvas <canvas> Create a virtual canvas for drawing graphics in the browser. Javascript can be used to control graphic rendering via the canvas. x,y coordinate system

16. Canvas Example

17. APIs Drag and Drop - Provides an API for Drap and Drop for JavaScript Geolocation - Determine Location of The User via the Browser Offline Storage - Browsers will support local storage. The API will be SQL like.

18. APIs History API - Access Browser history via JavaScript. <contenteditable> - Enables a Content Editing API Web Workers - Background Tasks for JavaScript

19. Multimedia Native Multimedia Support No Plugins Necessary <Video> - Native Video <Audio> - Native Audio

20. YouTube HTML5 Beta Available for Chrome and Safari

21. Other Controls <Progress> Displays progress of a task or action completed. <meter> Displays measure of something. <Output> For output of calculation or output of a script.

22. CSS3

23. New Styles border-radius - Rounded Corners border-colors - Gradient Borders box-shadow - Drop Shadows text-shadow - Text Drop Shadows gradient - Gradient backgrounds resize - Resize an Element background-size - resize background background - supports multipe images

24. Examples

25. Selectors A Variety of Selectors provide an interface to apply styles more precisely. An example would be selecting an nth child. Example: div:nth-child(3) {}

26. Columns Multi Column Layout is now provided by CSS3

27. Animation and Motion Animations - CSS3 allows for animations of styles Transitions - Allows styles to change gradually color shifts Transformations - 2D and 3D transformations, stretch, move, etc

28. Examples

29. Misc Media Queries - Provides for ways to specify styles based on viewport size.

30. When? HTML5 - Canidate Stage in 2012 CSS3 - Still in Working Draft

31. What about that Gorilla? IE 6 and other legacy browsers are preventing progress. IE9 has some HTML5 support.

32. Benefits of HTML5 & CSS3 Rich Interface elements not requiring third party plugins. Seperation of content and design Enhanced Mobile Support New Programming Interfaces

33. The Critics Say HTML5 will not get rid of Flash HTML5 doesn't use XML Syntax Too many tags / Tag Soup

34. The Future Current mobile browser technology will be the next battle ground. HTML5 and CSS3 will even the odds with supporting more and more platforms. The web will no longer be a second class user interface.

35. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/Tags.html http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1866 http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/book4/ch02.html http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/16/html5-and-the-future-of-the-web/ http://www.w3schools.com/html5 http://bluefaqs.com/2010/03/understanding-the-basics-of-css3/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/13/css-3-cheat-sheet-pdf/ http://www.css3.info/webkit-announces-support-for-css-3d-transforms/ http://www.css3.info/ http://images.appleinsider.com/html5.091909.001.png HTML 5 and CSS3 Demos http://www.zurb.com/article/221/css3-animation-will-rock-your-world http://www.fofronline.com/2009-04/3d-cube-using-css-transformations/ http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/development/50-awesome-css3-animations/ http://html5demos.com/ http://www.romancortes.com/blog/pure-css-coke-can/ http://9elements.com/io/projects/html5/canvas/ http://www.zachstronaut.com/lab/isocube.html http://www.dotcodedump.com/HTML5/triangle.html <-- My Canvas Example