Comments about oreilly HTML5 Step by Step:

Get material to write a book is not an easy task like lots of ordinary people think. Aside that, assemble all those things in order to create a high-quality text like this one can be even more laborious. Indeed, I think that guy called "Another HTML Coder" did not understand the real aim of the document (as long as we take into account his vociferous expertise in HTML as it seems!). His comments sound to much more basic than the book content itself and the knowledge of people for whom this book is intendend.
Congratulations to the staff.
Please, keep with your great job!
André

Comments about oreilly HTML5 Step by Step:

This is a well structured and clear book about how to write articles and code using HTML5. If you are looking to create or adjust content for the web and don't really have much experience, this provides good introductory material to get you on your feet.

If you have decent HTML knowledge you will want to avoid reading the book cover to cover, because much of the basics are covered here. Particular newer topics you should look at include the newer tags (like article and nav) and the newer input types (like the slider, date picker or spin box). The color picker input type wasn't mentioned, but it only really works in Opera so it's a very minor omission.

One slight disappointment about this book was that it didn't discuss some of the other aspects of HTML5, such as offline storage or location services. I understand those capabilities do assume JavaScript knowledge beyond the neophyte level, but mentioning these aspects of HTML5 in passing would've been nice. I did like the introduction to the canvas tag, and how it gave a brief introduction to JavaScript and jQuery to make the first experience fairly simple.

Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this through O'Reilly Media.

Comments about oreilly HTML5 Step by Step:

the book I'm reading html5 and very useful for what I am studying, and many simplifications to build and play any htm files

Comments about oreilly HTML5 Step by Step:

The link on page xxv for the Practice files takes you here.... http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0790145302083.do

Not a catalog of practice files!!!

You have to build each file in your editor thought the book was released in Jan/2011.... Nothing more than another HTML book....