HTML 5 and Javascript's Role?

Question

Anyone clear on how big a role Javascript will play when HTML 5 comes around? I'm deciding now whether to purchase a book on Javascript DOM or learn something useful like cooking with hemp oil. I'm already weary of the past year and a half I've spent absorbing AS3. I love it, I just don't want to be outmoded in 5 years when the iRevolutionaires rule the intergalactic space agency.

-Jascha

Answer 1

HTML is about content, and not behavior -- which means you'll still have, even with HTML 5, to know at least :

• HTML, for the content
• CSS, for the presentation
• And Javascript for the behavior (dynamic stuff)

So, I don't think Javascript will be outmoded in the next couple of years -- on the contrary, I would say, considering we are more and more going to use/develop web-applications.