HTML5 Doctor
Today I'm really happy to announce the launch of HTML 5 Doctor. It's been a long time in the making but we're finally there.
If you've been reading the blog recently you will have noticed that, it has been more focused on all this HTML 5 stuff. It all started back in January when I noticed Bruce Lawson documenting his journey converting his site from XHTML to HTML 5 and as I was later to find out, it seemed that I wasn't the only one interested in it.
When I attended Future Of Web Design London, in May of this year, I had agreed to go to a pre-arranged meet up organised by Bruce where he was eager to hear the opinions of people who had experimented with this new language. After an hour or so of discussing the spec and our problems interpreting it, a few of us decided to take the discussion further and decided that the best court of action would be to talk it over a beer or three.
The Alcoholics Anonymous were:
After some rehydration therapy we discussed the fact that there wasn't a one stop shop resource for HTML 5 and as someone had mentioned earlier, during the pre-arranged meet-up, that reading the spec was just unrealistic due to the size of it, and that they wished that someone would produce a straight to the point site, explaining everything that they needed to know.
After we left the pub and headed in our different ways we kept in touch through many emails. Now, nearly three months after the event we are ready to put this project live. Please note that we still have some work to do with the site, so if you find an error or something you don't think is quite correct please contact us through the site and we will do our best to get back to you as soon as possible.
I hope that many of you will find the site to be extremely useful, as I know that when I was converting this site a few months ago I found it very difficult to find HTML 5 resources or indeed information that was correct.
Also, a few weeks ago, our little group increased by one, when the excellent Remy Sharp joined the revolution. Yes, that Remy Sharp, pretty cool eh?
- Some of you might already be familiar with Richard as he runs the increasingly popular HTML 5 Gallery