iPhone® & iPad® Web Design For Dummies®

Chapter 4: Introducing HTML5 and CSS 3

In This Chapter

Designing for different web browsers

Understanding the history of HTML and CSS

Getting started with HTML5 and CSS 3

Choosing an HTML editor

Since the early days of the World Wide Web, one huge challenge of designing web pages is making them look good in all the different web browsers in use on the Internet. The creators of web browsers and the companies that create software for designing web pages don’t always agree on the same standards. A page that looks great in Firefox on your desktop, for example, may be unreadable in Safari on an iPhone.

The challenge of designing for the iPhone or iPad now is that you need a solid foundation in using HTML and CSS and the latest information about HTML5 and CSS 3 to take advantage of the coolest new things you can do.

In Part II of this book, we focus on how to use HTML5 and CSS 3 to design ...