Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Press; 2nd edition (October 28, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321784421
• ISBN-13: 978-0321784421

eBook Description:

Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition

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.

• 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

Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition

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:

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

Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition

Suddenly, everyone’s talking about HTML5, and ready or not, you need to get acquainted with this powerful new development in web and application design. Some of its new features are already being implemented by existing browsers, and much more is around the corner.

From the Back Cover

Introducing HTML5, 2nd Edition

Written by developers who have been using the new language for the past two years in their work, this book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers. Rather than being just an academic investigation, 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:

• new semantics and structures to help your site become richer and more accessible
• how to apply the most important JavaScript APIs that are already implemented
• the uses of native multimedia for video and audio
• techniques for drawing lines, fills, gradients, images and text with canvas
• how to build more intelligent web forms
• implementation of new storage options and web databases
• how geolocation works with HTML5 in both web and mobile applications

All the code from this book (and more) is available at www.introducinghtml5.com.

Authors Info

Bruce Lawson

Bruce Lawson is an Open Web Evangelist at Opera Software, and is a member of the Web Standards Project’s Accessibility Task Force. He speaks about HTML5 regularly at conferences such as OSCON, SxSW, @media, and the Future of Web series. Bruce re-coded his own website, brucelawson.co.uk, into HTML5 in January 2009. Prior to all that he’s been a Bollywood movie extra, a tarot card reader in Istanbul, a volunteer pharmacist in Calcutta and tutor to a princess’ daughter in Thailand.

Remy Sharp

Remy Sharp is a developer, speaker, blogger, author of the upcoming book jQuery for Designers (Manning), and contributing author for jQuery Cookbook (O’Reilly). Remy runs his own Brighton based development company called Left Logic, coding and writing about JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS, PHP, Perl and anything else he can get his hands on.

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