Abrahm Coffman

Sites like html5test and html5rocks are great resources for getting a quick overview of html5 and related technologies.  Motivated primarily by my own desire to verse myself in these new technologies, I’ve decided to create yet another outline/ontology.  I’ve attempted to link to the working specification or the organization overseeing it’s development for most of the technologies.  Hopefully this can also be a useful reference for others navigating this space.

Core

• ECMAScript (engines, benchmarks)

Markup, Animation, Media

• HTML5 (semantic markup, canvas, audio, video, forms, etc…)
• CSS3 (advanced selectors, transitions, transforms, animations, etc…)
• SVG
• MathML
• WebGL

Interaction

• DOM3 Events (state/history, mouse, keyboard)
• Device Orientation
• Web Events (multi-touch support)
• Speech Input (Google blog)

Process Threads

• Web Workers (map/reduce library?)

Storage

• Web Storage (session storage, local storage)
• Web SQL Database
• Indexed Database

Network Interface

• XMLHttpRequest (cross-origin resource sharing)
• Web Sockets
• Web Notifications

Sensors, Awareness

• Geolocation

Widgets

• Widgets

I will probably continue to make edits to this so continue to check back if it interests you, or post in comments if you’ve got feedback or things you think I should add.