HTML5: An Introduction From a Designer’s Perspective

I remember shivering in my college dorm room trying to figure out how to get some weird /div to float in some sort of column like structure and silently crying a single tear as my youth slowly withered away. Those days are gone!

With the birth of Firefox, the step-child banishment of Internet Explorer 6 and widespread adaptation of standards… life indeed has become much cheerier for us front-end web developers. What could be better than that? HTML5 coming to a browser near you! Scratch that, they’re now playing.

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This article is a brief introduction to what we can expect in HTML5… from a designer’s perspective.

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