Chapter 01. Introduction

 

“In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

 
 --Eric Hoffer

We are in the midst of the biggest change in web development since Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) cleansed our content of presentational markup and inspired us to think outside table layout boxes. Do you work on the web? HTML5 is for you.

We live in the era of the World Wide Web, a globally shared collection of hypertext and interactive building blocks that have multiplied access to communication and expression more than anything in history, perhaps ...

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