Advanced HTML5 in Action: Build 5 Advanced HTML5 Web Apps (Udemy.com)

Summary:

A good survey of the new features in HTML5 for students either familiar with or willing to gloss over the details of jquery. A lot of detail. The instructor knows her way around a stylesheet.

Presentation:

The speaker's English is adequate for the task, however the lecture is delivered in a monotone which is a little tiring for me. The material is a little thin with very little conceptual background, but that's consistent with the course description.

Keep in mind in the following comments, I'm running Linux Mint with chrome and Firefox as my browsers.

Nit-picks:

- With spans, divs, and all the new names for divs in HTML5, I prefer to avoid p tags.

- In the online editor lesson, the instructor uses the button text to indicate state. Not a good tactic if you're concerned about maintenance.

- The instructor added a font-size style to the summary css rule (in the accordion lesson) which masks a visual issue of the icons cascading forward. At least on linux FF and chrome.

- In the audio player, ONLY "Fur Elise" and "Maidens Prayer" will get the ended event and continue to the next song when the page is run on chrome.

- The sample videos in the video player lesson were not made available.

Technical Issues:

I have some concerns that cross-platform compatibility is being glossed over. You may be able to get away with this if you're targetting an intranet with only 1 allowed type of browser, but usually you'll need to target a larger audience.

- 2 of the lessons used the colorpicker and date widgets respectively. They seemed to work well on chrome mac, and maybe they work well on FF mac and windows browsers as well, but I know they're crap on the linux browsers. I'm not sure the use of these widgets should be encouraged.

- The details tag is not available on IE, making it a defacto NON-standard and a bad choice to include in the course.

- The CSS rule for hiding the arrow on the summary tag works only on chrome.