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If you are clueless about HTML 5, take a look at Christopher Schmitt’s Looking into HTML5 slides. No audio on the slides, but interesting to watch and read anyway.

This one’s got my heart pumping again – and it hasn’t happened in a while, mind you. I am talking about Mr. Jason Santa Maria and his latest article titled Making Modular Layout Systems over at 24ways.org.

The method is simple: write a bunch of well-thought classes, chain them together and you get a robust and versatile grid layout. A recommended read!

There are tutorials and there are Tutorials coming from great web authors like Cameron Moll. The Highly Extensible CSS interface is a great collection of resources divided into four distinct parts, which guide you into creating a neat and sophisticated web page. Each part provides you with a working online demo, downloadable files, and links to articles and books related to each step of the tutorial.

• Part one builds a resolution-dependent page layout and demonstrates the use or a reset style sheet.
• Part two demos the use of CSS selectors and dives into the realm of scripting and adds some neat effects using the jquery library.
• Part three covers the integration of ajax technology and starts up with a shout-out on resolution dependence.
• The fourth and last part in this series is about testing for extensibility with 8 benchmarks to thoroughly bulletproof your site.

Overall this is a carefully written Tutorial worth spending time on. Thumbs up!

While far from finished, work on the next spec of HTML is rapidly progressing. The new draft brings lots of new elements to define a document’s structure, which must be currently defined with ids and/or classes. The spec also aims to simplifiy multimedia embedding, it features a direct-mode graphics canvas, server-sent events and lots of other goodies. Read the article at A List Apart.