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CHAPTER 2 Getting started with HTML5

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elcome to the world of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3! This chapter gets you started

with HTML5. The next chapter does the same with JavaScript, and the following chap-

ter familiarizes you with CSS3.

Now that you’ve installed Visual Studio 2012 and Blend, you’re ready to build your

knowledge foundation by learning some basic HTML. This chapter presents a great deal of

HTML content. Although much of the content in this chapter exists in previous releases of

HTML, all content in this chapter is part of the HTML5 specification.

Lessons in this chapter:

■■Lesson 1: Introducing HTML5 29

■■Lesson 2: Embedding content 44

Before you begin

To complete this book, you must have some understanding of web development. This

chapter requires the hardware and software listed in the “System requirements” section in

the book’s Introduction.

Lesson 1: Introducing HTML5

Chapter 1, “Getting Started with Visual Studio 2012 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012,”

presented a very brief overview of the Visual Studio editions and Blend. This was necessary

to introduce you to the tools that will be used in this book. This lesson presents a rather

detailed overview of HTML5 and covers many of the fundamentals of HTML that existed

prior to HTML5 but are still part of the HTML5 specification.