2. WordPress, HTML5 and CSS3
Mike McCallister
Milwaukee WordPress Meetup
September 18, 2012
3. Who am I?
● Co-Author, WordPress in Depth
(with Bud Smith)
● Blogger,
Notes from the Metaverse
● Sr Document Architect, PKWARE
● President,
WI Society for Technical Communication
5. Obligatory History Lesson
● W3C Set up 1990 to oversee Web
● 1997: HTML 4.01: Standard for nearly every
web page out there today
● XHTML: The Bridge to XML
● HTML5: If not the bridge, then the destination
6. HTML5 for WordPress Users
● Not much yet to shout about
● Get an HTML5-based theme
● Create content in an HTML5-aware editor
7. HTML5 Themes
● WordPress Theme Directory Search 9/16/12:
45 under “html5”
● WordPress.com: Two! Toolbox (Automattic)
and Soundcheck ($75)
11. What Can Devs Use Today?
● 30 new elements in HTML5
● Browser support pretty solid for many
● Older versions of IE still a roadblock
(surprise!)
12. What Can Devs Use Today?
● Responsive Design
– CSS Media Queries (Audio, video)
● Font-Face: Foundries solving the license issue
– Google Fonts
– Font Squirrel
● Transitions (Sliders)
– Today with jQuery and browser-specific tags
– Tomorrow IE
13. What Can Devs Use Today?
● JavaScript: localStorage and sessionStorage
● Geolocation
14. Still a Little Dicey
● Transformations (especially 3D)
● Embedded media (waiting for codecs to
resolve)
15. Resources
● WordPress TV:
– George Stephanis: Updating Kubrick to HTML5/CSS3
– Jake Goldman: What HTML5 And Responsive Design C
– Ray Villalobos: HTML5 and CSS3 Integration
– Steve Heffernan: HTML5 Video for WordPress