HTML5 has entered the online video market, which is both exciting and challenging for developers in the industry. With both the HTML5 specification and the various browser implementations in constant flux, we at LongTail Video spend a signficant amount of time understanding the limitations of the technology, testing playback across various browsers and devices, and optimizing our own products for HTML5 playback.

When I first sat down to redesign my personal site I knew that I wanted to incorporate HTML5 Canvas somewhere in the layout. The problem was that I hadn't worked with canvas before and had to start from scratch. I went through the pain of learning every aspect of adding text, drawing shapes, importing image, etc... before I found the amazing canvas framework Processing.JS

My latest project is a recreation of the original Command and Conquer entirely in HTML5 and Javascript. Command and Conquer is the grand-daddy of all Real Time Strategy games and is probably the game that made the genre popular. My friends and I spent countless hours playing the original as well as subsequent sequels (Tiberian Sun, Red Alert).

We are now squarely in the age of HTML5; or the age of HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3, if you prefer. That being the case, it amazes me that for those poor souls who are new to the world of front-end development, there is little written on what their developer workflow might look like.

Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are

Rich Clark, one of the HTML5 Doctors, gets under the hood of the APIs that form the bulk of the HTML5 spec and tells us about their purpose and progress

HTML5 is quickly turning into a great game development platform. Rob Hawkes, creator of multiplayer space shooter Rawkets, highlights some of the best online games built with HTML5 (and JavaScript) out there and the technologies that they’re using

Much of HTML 5′s feature set involves JavaScript APIs that make it easier to develop interactive web pages but there are a slew of new elements that allow you extra semantics in your conventional Web 1.0 pages. In order to investigate these, let’s look at marking up a blog.