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HTML5 is popular for building rich Web sites as well as cross-platform mobile applications. And it looks like with Windows 8 Microsoft is embracing using HTML5 and JavaScript as a paradigm for building desktop applications as well. With everyone from Apple to Microsoft embracing HTML5 as "the future," if you don't know it yet, you should probably get started.

If you want to take full advantage of HTML5, you will need to know JavaScript, so you might want to start with our round-up of free JavaScript books.

Dive Into HTML5

Dive Into HTML5 probably offers the best balance of depth and accessibility to the would-be HTML5 developer that you can find online for free. Mark Pilgrim has been writing about HTML and Web development for several years. The "paid version" of this book is HTML5: Up and Running from O'Reilly.

HTML5 Doctor

HTML5 Doctor has been publishing tutorials for the past couple years. The site is well organized and includes a section on getting started, and several others that focus on specific features.

SitePoint's HTML5 and CSS3 Tutorials

You can download a free PDF sample of HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World by Estelle Weyl, Louis Lazaris and Alexis Goldstein from SitePoint, but you'll have to swap your e-mail address for it. Much of the same free material can also be found in the site's HTML5 and CSS3 sections. But unlike HTML5 Doctor, you'll have to dig around a bit.

One particularly helpful tutorial is this one on HTML5 and CSS3 in Internet Explorer 9.

W3C HTML5 Reference

If you want to know everything that's in new in HTML5, you can check out the W3C's HTML5 reference site, an extensive source of information on all the HTTML5 elements.

You can also check out the current draft of the spec.

HTML5 Cheat Sheet

The HTML5 Cheat Sheet is a free PDF features a quick reference guide to HTML5

W3Schools HTML5 Tutorial

The W3Schools have come under fire by the Web development community in recent years, but many developers have learned a lot from the site's tutorials. Its HTML5 tutorial covers all the basics.

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6 Free E-Books and Tutorials on HTML5

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Splashnology: HTML5 is supposed to have features like video playback which currently depends upon third-party(and proprietary) browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash. Today we have collected 50 awesome HTML5 demos to show its potential.

3D Chess

Anevent Apart HTML5 Experiment 2

Bacterium

Bakemono

Ball Pool

Blob

Bomomo

Canopy

Canvas Animation Demo

Canvas in 3D

Canvas Photo

Chain Reaction

Cloth Simulation

Entanglement

Experiment – HTML5 Canvas Nebula

Flickr Canvas Slideshow

Google Gravity

Google Images Gift Box – CSS 3D example

HTML5 gallery

HTML5 Typography demo

HTML5 Video Destruction

JS + Canvas Visualization

Kaleidoscope

Liquid Chars

Liquid Particles

Magnetic

Many Lines

Mesmerizer

Monster

Particles

Puzzle

Silk — A magical interactive artwork

Sinuous

Sketch

Spread

Stalkbuttons

The Wilderness Down Town

Trail

Tunneler

Video for Everybody

Wave

More about HTML5

In this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Here we present you, a list HTML5 tutorials and techniques that you can’t miss if you are a web developer.

This article is going to be about HTML5 video players. We’ll focus on ten decisions for cross-platform video displaying on the sites. The video element is a long-expected and certainly one of the most useful feature in HTML5.