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Should you learn JavaScript before HTML5?

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Nick is asked, "Should you learn JavaScript before HTML5?"

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    [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 0:00
    [Question: Is it important to work your way through JavaScript when you are using HTML5?] 0:04
    Is it important to learn JavaScript before you learn to use HTML5. 0:09
    It depends on what you want to do with it. 0:11
    If you just want to use the tags, then go ahead and mark up your webpage with-- 0:13
    better structure, using things like deception tag or the article tag, 0:20
    then no--you don't need to learn JavaScripts to go ahead and do that 0:25
    you can just go ahead and use that right away. 0:29
    If you want to use the new JavaScript features of HTML5, then yes--absolutely. 0:31
    You'll probably going to need to know JavaScript in order to do that. 0:38
    I think you're also going to need to decide whether or not you want your sites 0:42
    to be able to gracefully degrade--not so much an issue immediately, 0:46
    but your choice of JavaScript library is going to be very affected by whether or not 0:51
    you want to use the latest JavaScript features in your application. 0:55
    This is something we're going to be having to decide between jQuery1.9 or 1.8 0:59
    or even 2.0 when we finally get there. 1:05
    because they are phasing out support for older versions of browsers 1:07
    and moving towards supporting new ones. 1:11
    I mean Internet explorer has typically been a bane in developers' sides, 1:14
    but 10 and up are awesome and actually support a lot of the stuff that we want to see these days. 1:19
    [Question: Is it important to work your way through JavaScript when you are using HTML5?] 1:26
    [Treehouse Teacher Q & A] 1:27

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