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If I study HTML5, can I avoid having to learn javascript?

24th December 2012

My answer to If I study HTML5, can I avoid having to learn javascript? on Quora

Many of the most exciting new features that fall under the term HTML5 only make sense in the context of JavaScript—things like Canvas, Web Workers, AppCache and so on. So no, you can’t learn HTML5 properly without getting familiar with JacaScript.

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