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by lucb1e 1876 days ago
To build upon this question, more broadly: I'm also someone who's done quite a bit of HTML but it definitely isn't my day job. Finding good info is quite hard whenever I do want to make some site: most of the time I end up on reference pages but they don't give a good overview, whereas beginner's tutorials might have the piece of info I'm missing somewhere on the middle of part 7 (I don't have the patience for that). Searching for "modern HTML mobile scaling for someone who's about 12 years out of date please" doesn't quite seem to do it.

Does anyone have a good way to approach this? Or for HTML in particular, is there some way to keep up with it (on a decade time scale, not this year's framework hype)?

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I’ve been skimming this book called “Learning Web Design (5th Edition)” and it does a good job at that by including sections on the big picture and long term trends.

Its author has been in the web dev field for decades and has written multiple books on the topic. She has got some chapters written by experts in respective fields (CSS by Eric Meyer and so on)