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A curated list of awesome HTML5 resources. Inspired by [awesome-php](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php) and [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python)



## Table of Contents

- [Articles and standards](#articles-and-standards)

- [Multimedia capabilities](#multimedia-capabilities)

  - [Audio](#audio)

  - [Media capture](#media-capture)

  - [Picture in Picture](#picture-in-picture)

  - [Speech synthesis](#speech-synthesis)

  - [Voice recognition](#voice-recognition)

  - [Virtual Reality (VR)](#virtual-reality)

  - [Web animations](#web-animations)

- [Elements](#elements)

  - [Canvas](#canvas)

  - [Head](#head)

  - [Sectioning](#sectioning)

  - [Media Elements](#media-elements)

  - [Forms](#forms)

  - [Time](#time)

  - [WebVTT](#webtt)

  - [HTML Imports](#html-imports)

- [Development APIs](#development-apis)

  - [Permissions](#permissions)

  - [Geolocation](#geolocation)

  - [Cryptography](#cryptography)

  - [File](#file)

  - [Frame timing](#frame-timing)

  - [requestIdleCallback](#requestidlecallback)

  - [requestAnimationFrame](#requestanimationframe)

  - [Web payments](#web-payments)

- [Semantics](#semantics)

- [Accessibility](#accessibility)

- [DOM management](#dom-management)

  - [Shadow DOM](#shadow-dom)

  - [Data Binding](#data-binding)

  - [Web Components](#web-components)

- [Progressive web apps](#progressive-web-apps)

  - [Service Workers](#service-workers)

  - [Offline caching](#offline-caching)

  - [Push Notifications](#push-notifications)

- [Client side storage](#client-side-storage)

- [Performance](#performance)

- [Mobile](#mobile)

- [Communications and interoperability](#communications-and-interoperability)

  - [Web Sockets](#web-sockets)

  - [WebRTC](#webrtc)

- [Web Workers](#web-workers)

- [WebGL](#webgl)

- [Browser compatibility](#browser-compatibility)

- [Books](#books)

- [Game development](#game-development)

- [Bootcamp](#bootcamp)

- [Videos and Keynotes](#videos-and-keynotes)

- [Websites and resources](#websites-and-resources)

  - [Websites](#websites)

  - [Weekly news](#weekly-news)

  - [Twitter](#twitter)

- [Contributing](#contributing)



## Articles and standards



* [HTML 5.3](https://w3c.github.io/html/) - Current HTML5 spec

* [Progressive enhancement](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/progressive-enhancement-what-it-is-and-how-to-use-it/)

* [The extensible web manifesto](https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/)

* [Differences between HTML5 and HTML4 from W3C](https://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/)



## Multimedia capabilities



### Audio



* [Getting started with the Web Audio API](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webaudio/intro/?redirect_from_locale=es)

* [Web Audio API at MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/Web_Audio_API)

* [Making a Guitar Tuner with HTML5](https://jonathan.bergknoff.com/journal/making-a-guitar-tuner-html5)

* [Audio visualisation with the Web Audio API and React](https://www.twilio.com/blog/audio-visualisation-web-audio-api--react)



### Media Capture



* [Capturing Audio & Video in HTML5](https://www.html5rocks.com/es/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/)

* [Using the media capture API](https://www.sitepoint.com/using-the-media-capture-api/)



### Picture in Picture



* [Chrome's new Picture in Picture API](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/10/watch-video-using-picture-in-picture)



### Speech Synthesis



* [Intro to the HTML5 Speech Synthesis API](http://creative-punch.net/2014/10/intro-html5-speech-synthesis-api/)

* [Another useful intro](https://shapeshed.com/html5-speech-recognition-api/)



### Voice Recognition



* [Web speech API demo](https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html)

* [Using the Web Speech API](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_API/Using_the_Web_Speech_API)

* [Experimenting with the Web Speech API](https://www.sitepoint.com/experimenting-web-speech-api/)

* [Free voice recognition library (annyang)](https://www.talater.com/annyang/)



### Virtual Reality



* [Firefox Reality now available](https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/09/18/firefox-reality-now-available/)



### Web animations



* [Intro to web animations](http://danielcwilson.com/blog/2015/07/animations-intro/)

* [When to Use the Web Animations API](http://danielcwilson.com/blog/2016/08/why-waapi/)



## Elements



### Canvas



* [Brief description from W3 Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_canvas.asp)

* [Tutorial from MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial)

* [Various Tutorials](https://www.html5canvastutorials.com/)

* [Cheat Sheet](https://simon.html5.org/dump/html5-canvas-cheat-sheet.html)



### Head



* [A list of things that go in your pages' HEAD element](https://gethead.info/)



### Sectioning



* [How to Use The HTML5 Sectioning Elements](https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/use-html5-sectioning-elements)



### Media Elements



* Audio and Video

  - [audio tag from W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_audio.asp)

  - [video tag from W3 Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_video.asp)

  - [Tutorial from MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Video_and_audio_content)

  - [Capturing audio and video in HTML5](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/getusermedia/intro/)

* embed tag

  - [Brief description from W3 Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_embed.asp)

* source tag

  - [Brief description from W3 Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_source.asp)

* track tag

  - [Brief description from W3 Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_track.asp)



### Forms



* [Changes to forms in HTML5 from MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms)

* [HTML Forms](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp)



### Details



* [How to Use the Details and Summary Elements](https://blog.teamtreehouse.com/use-details-summary-elements)

* [Details element polyfill](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/11/complete-polyfill-html5-details-element/)



### Time



* [Time element guide](https://www.sitepoint.com/html5-time-element-guide/)



### WebVTT



* [First draft from W3C](http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-webvtt1-20141113/)



### HTML Imports



* [Introduction to HTML imports](https://www.webcomponents.org/community/articles/introduction-to-html-imports)



## Development APIs



### Permissions



* [Permissions API for the Web by Google](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/04/permissions-api-for-the-web)



### Geolocation



* [Using Geolocation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Geolocation_API)

* [HTML5 Apps: Positioning with Geolocation](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html5-apps-positioning-with-geolocation--mobile-456)



### Cryptography



* [Web Cryptography API draft](http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/)

* [Table of web cryptography support](http://diafygi.github.io/webcrypto-examples/)

* [Window.crypto](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/crypto)

* [Cryptography next steps from W3C](http://www.w3.org/2012/webcrypto/webcrypto-next-workshop/report.html)



### File



* [Using files from web applications (MDN)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File/Using_files_from_web_applications)

* [Reading local files in JavaScript](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/)

* [File API Draft](https://w3c.github.io/FileAPI/)

* [File system API](http://www.w3.org/TR/file-system-api/)



### Frame timing



* [Video from google developers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zoC3eaa9z0)

* [Draft from W3C](https://w3c.github.io/frame-timing/)



### requestIdleCallback



* [On Google developers](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/08/using-requestidlecallback)



### requestAnimationFrame



* [Using requestAnimationFrame (CSS Tricks)](https://css-tricks.com/using-requestanimationframe/)

* [Great article by Paul Irish](https://medium.com/@paul_irish/requestanimationframe-scheduling-for-nerds-9c57f7438ef4#.9gev5fdub)



### Web payments



* [Web payments API overview](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/payments/)



## Semantics



* [Semantic elements from W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp)

* [Sections and Outlines of an HTML5 from MDN Document](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Using_HTML_sections_and_outlines)

* [HTML5 Semantics from Smashing Magazine](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/11/html5-semantics/)

* [Lesser known semantics element from W3C & Opera](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Introduction_to_HTML/Advanced_text_formatting)



## Accessibility



* [Excellent intro to accessibility from Google's fundamentals](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/accessibility/)

* [Accessibility checklist for web developers](https://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist)

* [ARIA from MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA)

* [Great Accessibility Style Guide](https://a11y-style-guide.com/style-guide/)

* [Designing for Cognitive Differences](https://alistapart.com/article/designing-for-cognitive-differences)

* [Guide on how HTML elements are supported by screen readers](https://thepaciellogroup.github.io/AT-browser-tests/)

* [Top 25 Accessibility Testing Tools for Website](https://dynomapper.com/blog/27-accessibility-testing/246-top-25-awesome-accessibility-testing-tools-for-websites)

* [Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List from W3](http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/)

* [Pa11y - automated accessibility testing](http://pa11y.org/)

* [Aria in HTML](https://developer.paciellogroup.com/blog/2014/10/aria-in-html-there-goes-the-neighborhood/)

* [Accessible and Responsive HTML5 Video Player](https://2017.ind.ie/blog/accessible-video-player/)



## DOM Management



### Shadow DOM



* [Shadow DOM v1: self-contained web components](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-components/shadowdom)

* [What's New in Shadow DOM v1 (by examples)](https://hayato.io/2016/shadowdomv1/)



### Data Binding



* [Data-binding Revolutions with Object.observe()](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es7/observe/)



### Web Components



* [Custom elements v1: reusable web components](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-components/customelements)

* [The power of web components](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/11/the-power-of-web-components/)

* [Polymer project](https://github.com/polymer)

* [A Quick Introduction To Polymer](https://www.webcomponents.org/community/articles/a-quick-polymer-introduction)

* [Building web components using Polymer and ES6 classes](https://www.polymer-project.org/blog/es6)

* [Demythstifying Web Components](http://www.backalleycoder.com/2016/08/26/demythstifying-web-components/)

* [HTML imports](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/imports/)

* [Building Webapps with Yeoman and Polymer](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/yeoman/)



## Progressive web apps



* [Intro to PWAs](https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/)

* [An Extensive Guide To Progressive Web Applications](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/11/guide-pwa-progressive-web-applications/)

* [The Business Case for Progressive Web Apps](https://cloudfour.com/thinks/the-business-case-for-progressive-web-apps/)



### Service Workers



* [Service Worker fundamentals](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/service-workers/)

* [ServiceWorkies - Learn SWs playing a game](https://serviceworkies.com/)

* [The Service Worker Cookbook](https://serviceworke.rs/)

* [Offline content with service workers](https://www.madebymike.com.au/writing/service-workers/)

* [Making a Service Worker: a case study (Smashing Magazine)](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2016/02/making-a-service-worker/)

* [Service workers explained](https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/blob/master/explainer.md)

* [Service Worker Libraries, Totally Tooling Tips](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIRj8DftkqE)

* [ServiceWorker: Revolution of the Web Platform](https://ponyfoo.com/articles/serviceworker-revolution)



### Offline caching



* [The Offline Cookbook](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/instant-and-offline/offline-cookbook/)

* [Instant-loading Offline-first (Progressive Web App Summit 2016)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJAz3IIq18)

* [Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps (article by Addy Osmani)](https://medium.com/dev-channel/offline-storage-for-progressive-web-apps-70d52695513c#.jsbxgywzz)

* [A Beginner's Guide to Using the Application Cache](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/)



### Push Notifications



* [Web Push Notifications (Google's Web fundamentals)](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/push-notifications/)

* [Push API W3C draft](http://w3c.github.io/push-api/)

* [Notifications API spec](https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/)



## Client side storage



* [Client-Side Storage](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/offline/storage/)

* [Offline Cookbook](https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/)

* [Introduction to IndexedDB](https://www.codemag.com/Article/1411041)

* [Real-World Off-Line Data Storage](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/real-world-off-line-data-storage--net-34063)

* [Local storage tutorial](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Add-ons/Overlay_Extensions/XUL_School/Local_Storage)



## Performance



* [Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)](https://www.ampproject.org/learn/overview/)

* [Google developers best practices](https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules)

* [Optimizing performance from Google Web Fundamentals](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/why-performance-matters/)

* [Resource hints draft (preconnect and preload)](http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-resource-hints-20141021/)

* [Prefetching and prerendeding](https://medium.com/@luisvieira_gmr/html5-prefetch-1e54f6dda15d)

* [Image compression](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/img-compression/)

* [Text compression](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/txt-compression/)

* [Resource timing spec](http://www.w3.org/TR/resource-timing/)



## Mobile



* [The Web App Manifest (Google's fundamentals)](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/web-app-manifest/)

* [Field guide to web applications](https://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/)

* [Apache Cordova tutorial](http://ccoenraets.github.io/cordova-tutorial/)

* [PhoneGap from Scratch](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/phonegap-from-scratch-introduction--mobile-9171)

* [Best practices for mobile web apps](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/speed/quick/)

* [Build mobile apps with Kendo UI](https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/hybrid/introduction)

* [HTML5 Vibration API](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html5-vibration-api--mobile-22585)

* [HTML5 Battery Status API](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html5-battery-status-api--mobile-22795)

* [Privacy analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API](https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/616.pdf)

* [HTML5 Network Information API](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/html5-network-information-api--cms-21598)

* [Sencha Touch tutorials](https://docs.sencha.com/)



## Communications and interoperability



### Web Sockets



* [Introducing Websockets](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/websockets/basics/)

* [About HTML5 WebSocket](https://www.websocket.org/aboutwebsocket.html)

* [HTML5 Web Sockets API](http://www.tutorialspark.com/html5/HTML5_WebSockets.php)



### WebRTC



* [What is WebRTC and how does it work](https://www.innoarchitech.com/what-is-webrtc-and-how-does-it-work/)

* [WebRTC made simple](https://blog.carbonfive.com/2014/10/16/webrtc-made-simple/)

* [WebRTC data channels tutorial](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/datachannels/)

* [WebRTC data channels from MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Games/Techniques/WebRTC_data_channels)



## Web Workers



* [Web Worker Basics](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics/)

* [How fast are web workers?](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/07/how-fast-are-web-workers/)

* [Web Workers in MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Workers_API/Using_web_workers)

* [Getting started with Web Workers](https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-web-workers--net-27667)



## WebGL



* [WebGL Fundamentals](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webgl/webgl_fundamentals/)



## Browser compatibility



* [I want to use](http://www.iwanttouse.com/)

* [Can I use...](https://caniuse.com/)

* [W3C quality tools](http://w3c.github.io/developers/tools/)

* [HTML5 test](http://beta.html5test.com/)

* [HTML5 demos](https://bestvpn.org/html5demos/)



## Books



* [Dive Into HTML5](http://diveinto.html5doctor.com/)

* [HTML5: Up and Running](https://www.amazon.com/HTML5-Running-Dive-Future-Development/dp/0596806027)

* [Using the HTML5 Filesystem API](http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920021360.do)

* [HTML5 Game Development Insights](https://www.apress.com/us/book/9781430266976)

* [Web Design Playground: HTML & CSS The Interactive Way](https://www.manning.com/books/web-design-playground)



## Game development



* [Getting started with HTML5 Game Development from Mozilla Hacks](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/getting-started-with-html5-game-development/)

* [HTML 5 game development video series by Mozilla](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/02/html-5-game-development-video-series/)

* [Info, news and tutorials](http://html5gamedevelopment.com/)

* [Over 380 resources on HTML5 game development](https://html5-game-development.zeef.com/andre.antonio.schmitz)

* Opensource JavaScript game engines

  - [Pixi.js](https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js)

  - [Phaser](https://github.com/photonstorm/phaser)

  - [MelonJS](https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS)

  - [Kiwi.js](https://github.com/gamelab/kiwi.js)

  - [Crafty](https://github.com/craftyjs/Crafty)

  - [PhysicsJS](https://github.com/wellcaffeinated/PhysicsJS)

  - [Stage.js](https://github.com/shakiba/stage.js)

  - [Cocos2d](https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-html5)



## Bootcamp

*[Learn coding for free online](https://www.freecodecamp.org/)

*[Free online cources](https://www.khanacademy.org/)



## Videos and Keynotes



* [HTML5 Developer Conference](https://html5devconf.com/videos.html)

* [Polymer: declarative, encapsulated, reusable components](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1vTVkqCDQ)

* [Making the mobile web fast, feature-rich, and beautiful](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXjPsvwIDwU)

* [Dart: HTML of the Future, Today!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euCNWhs7ivQ)



## Websites and resources



### Websites



* [HTML official reference](https://webplatform.github.io/docs/Main_Page/index.html) (allows collaborative modification of content like wiki)

* [HTML5 Rocks](https://www.html5rocks.com/en/) (news, tutorials and updates)

* [HTML5 Gallery](http://html5gallery.com/) (a showcase of sites using HTML5 markup and API's)

* [HTML5 development guide from MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML)

* [W3C Highlights form June 2014](http://www.w3.org/2014/06/w3c-highlights/)

* [HTML5 Please](https://html5please.com/) (Know when HTML5 feature are ready to use)

* [Keen HTML](https://keenhtml.com) (Free interactive lessons to learn HTML)

* [A Complete Guide to the Table Element ](https://css-tricks.com/complete-guide-table-element/) 



### Weekly news



* [HTML5 Weekly](https://frontendfoc.us/)

* [Mozilla Hacks Weekly Articles](https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/mozilla-hacks-weekly/)

* [Responsive Design Newsletter](http://responsivedesignweekly.com/)



### Twitter



* [@html5](https://twitter.com/html5)

* [@html5rock](https://twitter.com/html5rock)

* [@html5gallery](https://twitter.com/html5gallery)

* [@html5doctor](https://twitter.com/html5doctor)

* [@GameDevHTML5](https://twitter.com/GameDevHTML5)

* [@mozhacks](https://twitter.com/mozhacks)

* [@googlechrome](https://twitter.com/googlechrome)



## Other awesome lists



* [awesome-awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness)

* [lists](https://github.com/jnv/lists)

* [Community Curated Resources](https://hackr.io/tutorials/learn-html-5)



## Contributing



Your contributions are always welcome!