Awesome HTML5

A curated list of awesome HTML5 resources. Inspired by awesome-php and awesome-python

Table of Contents

• Articles and standards
• Multimedia capabilities
  • Audio
  • Media capture
  • Picture in Picture
  • Speech synthesis
  • Voice recognition
  • Virtual Reality (VR)
  • Web animations
• Elements
  • Canvas
  • Head
  • Sectioning
  • Media Elements
  • Forms
  • Time
  • WebVTT
  • HTML Imports
• Development APIs
  • Permissions
  • Geolocation
  • Cryptography
  • File
  • Frame timing
  • requestIdleCallback
  • requestAnimationFrame
  • Web payments
• Semantics
• Accessibility
• DOM management
  • Shadow DOM
  • Data Binding
  • Web Components
• Progressive web apps
  • Service Workers
  • Offline caching
  • Push Notifications
• Client side storage
• Performance
• Mobile
• Communications and interoperability
  • Web Sockets
  • WebRTC
• Web Workers
• WebGL
• Browser compatibility
• Books
• Game development
• Bootcamp
• Videos and Keynotes
• Websites and resources
  • Websites
  • Weekly news
  • Twitter
• Contributing

Articles and standards

• HTML 5.3 - Current HTML5 spec
• Progressive enhancement
• The extensible web manifesto
• Differences between HTML5 and HTML4 from W3C

Multimedia capabilities

Audio

• Getting started with the Web Audio API
• Web Audio API at MDN
• Making a Guitar Tuner with HTML5
• Audio visualisation with the Web Audio API and React

Media Capture

• Capturing Audio & Video in HTML5
• Using the media capture API

Picture in Picture

• Chrome’s new Picture in Picture API

Speech Synthesis

• Intro to the HTML5 Speech Synthesis API
• Another useful intro

Voice Recognition

• Web speech API demo
• Using the Web Speech API
• Experimenting with the Web Speech API
• Free voice recognition library (annyang)

Virtual Reality

• Firefox Reality now available

Web animations

• Intro to web animations
• When to Use the Web Animations API

Elements

Canvas

• Brief description from W3 Schools
• Tutorial from MDN
• Various Tutorials
• Cheat Sheet

Head

• A list of things that go in your pages’ HEAD element

Sectioning

• How to Use The HTML5 Sectioning Elements

Media Elements

• Audio and Video
  • audio tag from W3Schools
  • video tag from W3 Schools
  • Tutorial from MDN
  • Capturing audio and video in HTML5
• embed tag
  • Brief description from W3 Schools
• source tag
  • Brief description from W3 Schools
• track tag
  • Brief description from W3 Schools

Forms

• Changes to forms in HTML5 from MDN
• HTML Forms

Details

• How to Use the Details and Summary Elements
• Details element polyfill

Time

• Time element guide

WebVTT

• First draft from W3C

HTML Imports

• Introduction to HTML imports

Development APIs

Permissions

• Permissions API for the Web by Google

Geolocation

• Using Geolocation
• HTML5 Apps: Positioning with Geolocation

Cryptography

• Web Cryptography API draft
• Table of web cryptography support
• Window.crypto
• Cryptography next steps from W3C

File

• Using files from web applications (MDN)
• Reading local files in JavaScript
• File API Draft
• File system API

Frame timing

• Video from google developers
• Draft from W3C

requestIdleCallback

• On Google developers

requestAnimationFrame

• Using requestAnimationFrame (CSS Tricks)
• Great article by Paul Irish

Web payments

• Web payments API overview

Semantics

• Semantic elements from W3Schools
• Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 from MDN Document
• HTML5 Semantics from Smashing Magazine
• Lesser known semantics element from W3C & Opera

Accessibility

• Excellent intro to accessibility from Google’s fundamentals
• Accessibility checklist for web developers
• ARIA from MDN
• Great Accessibility Style Guide
• Designing for Cognitive Differences
• Guide on how HTML elements are supported by screen readers
• Top 25 Accessibility Testing Tools for Website
• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List from W3
• Pa11y - automated accessibility testing
• Aria in HTML
• Accessible and Responsive HTML5 Video Player

DOM Management

Shadow DOM

• Shadow DOM v1: self-contained web components
• What’s New in Shadow DOM v1 (by examples)

Data Binding

• Data-binding Revolutions with Object.observe()

Web Components

• Custom elements v1: reusable web components
• The power of web components
• Polymer project
• A Quick Introduction To Polymer
• Building web components using Polymer and ES6 classes
• Demythstifying Web Components
• HTML imports
• Building Webapps with Yeoman and Polymer

Progressive web apps

• Intro to PWAs
• An Extensive Guide To Progressive Web Applications
• The Business Case for Progressive Web Apps

Service Workers

• Service Worker fundamentals
• ServiceWorkies - Learn SWs playing a game
• The Service Worker Cookbook
• Offline content with service workers
• Making a Service Worker: a case study (Smashing Magazine)
• Service workers explained
• Service Worker Libraries, Totally Tooling Tips
• ServiceWorker: Revolution of the Web Platform

Offline caching

• The Offline Cookbook
• Instant-loading Offline-first (Progressive Web App Summit 2016)
• Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps (article by Addy Osmani)
• A Beginner’s Guide to Using the Application Cache

Push Notifications

• Web Push Notifications (Google’s Web fundamentals)
• Push API W3C draft
• Notifications API spec

Client side storage

• Client-Side Storage
• Offline Cookbook
• Introduction to IndexedDB
• Real-World Off-Line Data Storage
• Local storage tutorial

Performance

• Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
• Google developers best practices
• Optimizing performance from Google Web Fundamentals
• Resource hints draft (preconnect and preload)
• Prefetching and prerendeding
• Image compression
• Text compression
• Resource timing spec

Mobile

• The Web App Manifest (Google’s fundamentals)
• Field guide to web applications
• Apache Cordova tutorial
• PhoneGap from Scratch
• Best practices for mobile web apps
• Build mobile apps with Kendo UI
• HTML5 Vibration API
• HTML5 Battery Status API
• Privacy analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API
• HTML5 Network Information API
• Sencha Touch tutorials

Communications and interoperability

Web Sockets

• Introducing Websockets
• About HTML5 WebSocket
• HTML5 Web Sockets API

WebRTC

• What is WebRTC and how does it work
• WebRTC made simple
• WebRTC data channels tutorial
• WebRTC data channels from MDN

Web Workers

• Web Worker Basics
• How fast are web workers?
• Web Workers in MDN
• Getting started with Web Workers

WebGL

• WebGL Fundamentals

Browser compatibility

• I want to use
• Can I use…
• W3C quality tools
• HTML5 test
• HTML5 demos

Books

• Dive Into HTML5
• HTML5: Up and Running
• Using the HTML5 Filesystem API
• HTML5 Game Development Insights
• Web Design Playground: HTML & CSS The Interactive Way

Game development

• Getting started with HTML5 Game Development from Mozilla Hacks
• HTML 5 game development video series by Mozilla
• Info, news and tutorials
• Over 380 resources on HTML5 game development
• Opensource JavaScript game engines
  • Pixi.js
  • Phaser
  • MelonJS
  • Kiwi.js
  • Crafty
  • PhysicsJS
  • Stage.js
  • Cocos2d

Bootcamp

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Videos and Keynotes

• HTML5 Developer Conference
• Polymer: declarative, encapsulated, reusable components
• Making the mobile web fast, feature-rich, and beautiful
• Dart: HTML of the Future, Today!

Websites and resources

Websites

• HTML official reference (allows collaborative modification of content like wiki)
• HTML5 Rocks (news, tutorials and updates)
• HTML5 Gallery (a showcase of sites using HTML5 markup and API’s)
• HTML5 development guide from MDN
• W3C Highlights form June 2014
• HTML5 Please (Know when HTML5 feature are ready to use)
• Keen HTML (Free interactive lessons to learn HTML)
• A Complete Guide to the Table Element

Weekly news

• HTML5 Weekly
• Mozilla Hacks Weekly Articles
• Responsive Design Newsletter

Twitter

• [@html5](https://twitter.com/html5)
• [@html5rock](https://twitter.com/html5rock)
• [@html5gallery](https://twitter.com/html5gallery)
• [@html5doctor](https://twitter.com/html5doctor)
• [@GameDevHTML5](https://twitter.com/GameDevHTML5)
• [@mozhacks](https://twitter.com/mozhacks)
• [@googlechrome](https://twitter.com/googlechrome)

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• Community Curated Resources

Contributing

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