Auther : Bruce Lawson
Publisher : New Riders Press
ISBN : 0321784421
ISBN13 : 9780321784421
Pages : 312
List Price : $34.99 $17.45 ( on Jan 05, 2012 )
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HTML5 continues to evolve, browsers are implementating at break-neck speed and HTML5 web sites spring up like flowers after rain. More than ever, you need to get acquainted with the powerful new possibilities in web and application design. That’s why we’ve crafted a second edition of this book to help you stay on top of current developments.
This book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers. It concentrates on the practical—the problems HTML5 can solve for you right away. By following the book’s hands-on HTML5 code examples you’ll learn about:
- new semantics and structures to help your site become richer and more accessible
- applying the most important JavaScript APIs that are already implemented
- using and controlling native multimedia
- how to build more intelligent web forms
- implementing new storage options and web databases, including both WebSQL and IndexedDB
- how geolocation works with HTML5 in both web and mobile applications
And this new edition adds:
- even more detail on canvas, geolocation and offline storage options
- a peek around the corner for audio and video’s new element, subtitling formats, in-browser web conference
- browser history controls to make applications more usable and bookmarkable
- ways to use HTML5 now in older browsers
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Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition) Reviews
| 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:  Good HTML5 starter book if you already know HTML4, CSS, & JavaScript, By Amazon Verified Purchase This review is from: Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition) (Paperback) I found this book to be a good update on the new stuff (and there's a lot more than just 30 new elements) in HTML5, including good information on WAI-ARIA and accessibility issues... and I find the price to be good for what you get.This book mainly discusses only the new elements in HTML5, and the new form input types and attributes (which allow a level of form validation without requiring JavaScript). It also has chapters on the new "video" and "audio" elements, canvas, data storage, going offline, drag and drop, geolocation (though not part of HTML5), messaging (the Messaging API) and worker threads (multi-threading in JavaScript), and a chapter on patching older browsers to support HTML5 today (called "polyfilling"). Some useful information is given about browser support for new HTML5 elements and attributes, but not a lot (too much browser support info would just make the book get out of date even faster). It's important to note that this book is not for the... Read more 4 of 6 people found the following review helpful: HTML5 - Well written, By This review is from: Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition) (Paperback) This is a well written and entertaining book that adequately covers HTML5. While not meant to be an encyclopedia of the new specification, it treats the subject with thoroughness. The writing is witty as is informative. 15 of 37 people found the following review helpful: Don't bother learning HTML5 just yet., This review is from: Introducing HTML5 (2nd Edition) (Paperback) I've been a web designer for 4 years now, and I can honestly tell everyone from experience, HTML5 just isn't there yet. Great ideas behind HTML5, its too bad almost none of them work since no one is implementing them into their browsers. For instance, the "video" tag was compatible with ogg files in firefox 3.0 and 3.5, but the current version of firefox does not support the "video" tag. If you are looking to learn web design, then HTML5 is not the way to go. Its an idea, not an industry standard. Too make matters worse, it turns new web design learners into idiots since it tries to mimic standard names that be assign to classes and divs in their code. New learners will never understand that structure without learning this stuff! Simply put, HTML5 is "HTML for Dummies!" Besides the video tag, the rest is useless. Instead focus on xhtml 1.0, it requires clean, well written code (unlike earlier HTML formats that were allowed unacceptable errors), and its code bases are compatible... Read more |
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