HTML5 and CSS3

[Riddle]

Ladies and gentleman, kids of all ages, it's time to move to the next generation of web development.

Has anyone looked into any of these two topics? They both look very promising, especially HTML5. And it seems like IE9 is being worked on and it's ahead of the competition in their HTML5 and CSS3 modules. I rather stick with Chrome though, especially now with the Android OS and Google TV running it, it will allow more room for developers to create stunning things! Not to mention that a lot of developers will move to the Chrome open source development, since the market is slowly moving towards Google's Open Source software.

Share opinions, links to tutorials, or information! There is big potential behind these two new series of web development scripts! Don't fall behind!

Links:
www.css3.info
www.html5.org

[Chad]

I hope to look forward into seeing better development into IE9 than the previous versions. I hate IE period but it never hurts to expect better from them. After all, they are Microsoft. I stick with Firefox and Chrome.

[Riddle]

IE8 was a great breakthrough for Microsoft though. They finally caught up (well, for the most part) with the other browsers on CSS behavior. It seems like they're investing a lot to make IE9 worthy of using and competing against other browsers.

Internet Explorer 9: Platform Demos

You can see benchmarks as of the latest preview release there. There are also HTML5 examples linked on that page, as well as many other interesting things.

[Chad]

Internet Explorer 9 Preview.
You can download the beta if you Google it.

IE9 Preview

The video has shitty quality.

[Riddle]

Yeah, the link I posted earlier also directs to a download. I honestly don't want to download it, I'm scared it might crash my computer... It is Microsoft who's behind IE after all. LOL!

[Chad]

I downloaded. It's shit of course. Takes forever to load one web page. It doesn't really support any older version of CSS currently. It's pure shit.

[Riddle]

That's hilarious! Well, it is experimental, and they have yet to finish crucial modules for the browser. Who knows, it might actually not be that bad. However, I rather stick with Chrome and other open source browsers, because again, they will get updated much faster than IE.

[Artificial]

IE9 is still sub par on so many levels. There are so many blog posts out there explaining why if you're interested.

I'm incredibly excited to start developing in HTML5 full time. Unfortunately, due to the slow development and time it will take for everybody to update their browsers (IE6 still has a large market share), it's still a long way off before we can abandon HTML4. As for CSS3, I already use it quite a bit, there's some nifty little tricks you can do with it.

Overall, it's a much needed upgrade.

[Riddle]

Depends what type of market you're going to be working with. Correct me if I'm wrong, but not many people that use this website use IE6, right? I believe it would be better to just tell those people with IE6 to upgrade their browser, and give them instructions on how that could be done (on websites that detect their OLD OUTDATED browser).

At least the projects I'm aiming to start developing in HTML5 and CSS3 will most likely be free online services, and if I find a user with a browser that doesn't support HTML5, I'll give instructions on how to acquire one.

[Artificial]

Grave dig. IE9 out, HTML5 gaining momentum. Here are some pretty cool examples of the canvas element (best viewed in Chrome):

http://ghost-hack.com/post/jsexperim.../tunneler.html
PlasmaTree
Canvas3D & Flickr
Pacman CSS
Sketchpad - Online Paint/Drawing application
Falling Leaves — Using CSS Animations and Transforms
Google Images Box - CSS 3D example
Coil - An addictive HTML5 canvas game.