With the release of Internet Explorer 9 this week, you may be looking for resources to get started with your HTML 5.

Here’s a list of resources to help you get started.

• HTML5: Developer Guide on MSDN includes links to tutorials, videos, technical articles and blog posts.
• Same Markup: Writing Cross-Browser Code
• How to Create a HTML5 Media Player. Tutorial shows you how to use HTML5 to add a music player to your webpage without requiring a third-party plug-in or add-on.
• How to Create an HTML5 Audio Player. Demo (requires IE9).
• HTML5: How to Create a Location-Aware Webpage. Tutorial shows you how to enable a web application to access the current geographical location of the computer or device running the browser..
• HTML5: IMDb Video Panorama Demo. Demo (requires IE 9)
• GPU-powered HTML5. Blog post how IE9 uses Direct2D, DirectWrite and XPS to enable Internet Explorer 9 to render all standards-based web content – text, images, video and SVG – using the power of the GPU.
• Creating HTML5 Games. Blog post about user experience. We challenged Grant Skinner, the world-famous Flash guru, and his team to build an incredible game solely in HTML5.
• HTML5 and Web Video. Describes the support for H.264 and how IE9 supports users who install third-party WebM video support.
• HTML5: Site-Ready and Experimental. Blog about how IE 9 supports the work of two of our hardware partners: AMD and Nvidia.
• Celebrating W3C & HTML5 with New Logo Program. Blog post about W3C introducing a new logo program for HTML5.
• DevUnplugged HTML5 Contest. Contest that begins March 1. First submission deadline is April 5.
• Using the Browser to Demo the Power of Hardware. Blog post about performance.
• Testing Standards in the W3C. Blog post about using the same markup with stable specs.
• Using the W3C Geolocation API in IE9. Blog post on how to use IE 9 support for the W3C Geolocation API, which enables Web developers to request the user’s physical location.
• Testing Multiple Versions of IE. Explains how to test production Web sites against multiple browsers and multiple browser versions.

See also my video about HTML 5 on how Plexipixel Uses WordPress on Microsoft.

Download Internet Explorer 9 from Beauty of the Web.

Learn more about Dev Unplugged contest at: http://www.beautyoftheweb.com/dev/unplugged.

About HTML 5

HTML5 is the next major update to the W3C HTML specification providing a standard structure for presenting content on the web. The W3C HTML5 specification adds new features like graphical support through SVG and Canvas, multimedia support like inline video and audio, as well as new APIs to make it easier for developers to create rich, interactive web applications. Like CSS2.1, CSS3 gives designers and developers the ability to apply presentation semantics to their HTML pages

Bruce D. Kyle
ISV Architect Evangelist | Microsoft Corporation