BONUS: HTML5 + Quiz

DUE Sunday, Feb 12 – 2 points
(Monday NOON deadline)

This assignment covers HTML 5, the new specification that is currently in development for one of the web technologies we discussed this semester.

  • 5 Exciting Things to Look Forward to in HTML 5 (all three pages)
    This is a post on HTML 5 written by a web developer named Jacob Gube for ReadWriteWeb. He briefly discusses the history of HTML 5 and covers its main features.

  • HTML 5 Shiv
    John Resig discusses an important technique for those wanting to use HTML 5 sooner rather than later. (The concept he discusses have been incorporated into a JavaScript library that you can use in your own web projects.)

Once you have watched or read these materials, you will need to take a quiz of ten true-false questions. (These questions will be randomly selected from the questions below. You can retake the quiz up to five times. Don’t stress about getting 100% on these quizzes: if you get 80% or better, you will be ready to proceed to the next activity and I will give you full credit.)

All questions should be prefaced with an understood, “According to the author of the material … “:

  1. T/F? The conceptual work for what is today HTML 5 began right after the publication of HTML 4 in 1997.
  2. T/F? The HTML 5 draft was originally developed by a group formed in 2004, the Web Hypertext Application Technology (WHAT) Working Group.
  3. T/F? HTML’s primary task is to define how content on a web page should look.
  4. T/F? Jacob Gube includes steaming video and navigation menus in his list of web content that has outgrown HTML 4.
  5. T/F? One drawback to HTML 5 is that the code is harder to read.
  6. T/F? A well-formed HTML 5 document gives search engines a better understanding of its content.
  7. T/F? HTML 5 introduces a <video> tag so that browsers should be able to play supported video formats natively without Flash.
  8. T/F? Jacob mentions pie charts and cats as objects you can draw with <canvas>.
  9. T/F? Drawings generated through <canvas> are static, just like JPG or PNG images.
  10. T/F? Internet Explorer 6-8 will not apply CSS to elements it does not recognize (like <section>), but it can be made to recognize such elements with a small amount of JavaScript.

DUE Sunday, Feb 12 – 2 points
(Monday NOON deadline)