Upgrade Your HTML II

Published on Nov 17, 2020 (updated Feb 7, 2025), filed under books, development (feed). (Share this on Mastodon or Bluesky?)

Upgrade Your HTML meant the start of a little book series, and today marks the release of: Upgrade Your HTML II 🚀

If you care about HTML as a craft, if you consider yourself an HTML minimalist, if you believe in pushing for boundaries (and sometimes overdoing it), then this is a right book (and a right book series) for you—with 10 new examples from the field that get inspected and improved.

Great primer and a good read.

…readers say at SitePoint.

This book is part of a series: Explore Upgrade Your HTML at Amazon, Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and Leanpub.

Description

Upgrade Your HTML is the book series for HTML craftspeople and minimalists.

In Upgrade Your HTML II, HTML and CSS optimizer Jens Oliver Meiert takes 10 additional HTML examples from real websites to review and condense the respective markup.

Keep document structures simpler, use semantically more appropriate markup, write less HTML, question certain techniques, deal more intelligently with third-party code—there are many ways to improve HTML code.

“While his approach is radical in some cases, the message counts: analyze, scrutinize, optimize.”—Manuel Matuzović (HTMHell)

→ This is the book if you enjoy the intricacies of working with HTML.

The outline:

• Foreword
• Intro
• Acknowledgments
• Cut the Fat
• Mark Titles of Works Correctly
• Review and Improve Third-Party Code
• Keep It Simple
• Use Lists
• Skip type
• Work Your Way Up
• Know the Past, Know the Future
• Ignore AMP
• Avoid Prefetching and Prerendering Everything
• Outro
• Feedback
• About the Author
• About Upgrade Your HTML II

❧ It was a great pleasure to work with special guest Manuel Matuzović, who reviewed the manuscript and contributed the foreword, and I’m likewise indebted to Gabriele Kretzschmar, who helped reviewing and editing. Thank you.

Enjoy the new part of the series: Upgrade Your HTML II!

About Me

I’m Jens (long: Jens Oliver Meiert), and I’m a web developer, manager, and author. I’ve worked as a technical lead and engineering manager for small and large enterprises, I’m an occasional contributor to web standards (like HTML, CSS, WCAG), and I write and review books for O’Reilly and Frontend Dogma.

I love trying things, not only in web development and engineering management, but also in other areas like philosophy. Here on meiert.com I share some of my experiences and views. (I value you being critical, interpreting charitably, and giving feedback.)