Mathew Keller

Monday, 26th October, 2009

HTML5, CSS3 and Me

Way back in September I was fortunate enough to be one of a group of front-end developers, designers, coders, project managers and general web pioneers attending the HTML5 and CSS3 Wizardry workshop run by local design consultancy Clearleft as part of the dConstruct 2009 conference.

The day was split into two halves with my good friend Jeremy Keith running us through the new elements being discussed for HTML5 and the ideas behind them in the morning session, and his Clearleft cohorts Richard Rutter and Natalie Downe giving us a heads up on some of the amazing stuff being added to CSS3 in the afternoon.

One of the first things each of them suggested to do was to a) get involved and then b) get playing around with this stuff, as, although not all of it’s currently supported or even decided upon yet, there is no reason not to start introducing elements into sites to enrich the experience of those fortunate people to be running the latest versions of browsers and to pave the way for HTML5’s eventual introduction.

To that end, I’ve found a bit of time to start doing this very thing here on my own site! With the view of adding much more in the future.

More details of what’s been added after the fold. 

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