Part 1. Introduction

It’s important that you know about HTML5’s semantic markup basics and wide variety of APIs. For the introduction, we’ll cover these concepts briefly, but in heavy detail, to ramp you up.

If you’re already building sites with HTML5’s new tag structure you could skip this section. However, you’ll miss advanced markup concepts such as ARIA and microdata (if you aren’t already familiar with them).

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