Regular Expressions / History of HTML5
JavaScript Regular Expressions – a Primer
By Bob Byron
The History of HTML5
By Mike Wilcox
JavaScript Regular Expressions — a Primer — By Bob Byron
Regular Expressions are a powerful tool in the arsenal of any programmer, yet they just might not stumble on them before they have written a lot of code to do their own string processing. Make sure your team knows about regular expressions and further, make sure they know how to use them. This object is incredibly useful and can help you with most any data parsing and matching. You can easily validate data, find words, find word fragments, or maybe just remove html tags from your string. Whatever the reason, you will do yourself, your team, and your business a favor if you will make it one of the core technologies they know.
The History of HTML5 — By Mike Wilcox
The history of HTML to HTML5 and how it evolved via the browser wars and standards bodies
See the presentation here: The History of HTML5
