Last week Code Academy announced the launch of their new series of lessons for people wanting to get to grips with HTML and CSS. The free service has been up for quite some time now and I have played through the javascript course whilst trying to find recommended free resources for some of my colleagues.
I have gone through the first 6 sections of HTML and have been somewhat disappointed on the coding standards being imposed.
I appreciate that HTML5 is still not official but there have been enough books written now and enough sites out in the wild to say certain things we are all agreed on. For example, that we can declare <html> as simply as that. There are some areas which are optional. Where I stopped was in the final part of Section 5 where you declare images. They have said that you MUST close the tag with a /. But this isn’t true because HTML5 doesn’t care if there is a closing tag or not it is more forgiving and ultimately easier and quicker to write. Continue reading