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HTML5 in Action provides, a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. You'll explore every aspect of the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It's much more than just a specification reference, though. It lives up to the name HTML5 in Action by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you'll need to use key features.
About the Technology
HTML5 is not a few new tags and features added to an old standard-it's the foundation of the modern web, enabling its interactive services, single-page UI, interactive games, and complex business applications. With support for standards-driven mobile app development, powerful features like local storage and WebSockets, superb audio and video APIs, and new layout options using CSS3, SVG, and Canvas, HTML5 has entered its prime time.
HTML5 in Action provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. It explores the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It earns the name "in Action" by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you'll need to confidently build the sites and applications you-and your clients-have been wanting for years.
What's Inside
• New semantic elements and form input types
• Single-page application design
• Creating interactive graphics
• Mobile web apps
Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
• HTML5: from documents to applications
PART 2 BROWSER-BASED APPS
• Form creation: input widgets, data binding, and data validation
• File editing and management: rich formatting, file storage, drag and drop
• Messaging: communicating to and from scripts in HTML5
• Mobile applications: client storage and offline execution
PART 3 INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS, MEDIA, AND GAMING
• 2D Canvas: low-level, 2D graphics rendering
• SVG: responsive in-browser graphics
• Video and audio: playing media in the browser
• WebGL: 3D application development
• Plus 10 Appendixes
About the Technology
HTML5 is not a few new tags and features added to an old standard-it's the foundation of the modern web, enabling its interactive services, single-page UI, interactive games, and complex business applications. With support for standards-driven mobile app development, powerful features like local storage and WebSockets, superb audio and video APIs, and new layout options using CSS3, SVG, and Canvas, HTML5 has entered its prime time.
HTML5 in Action provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. It explores the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It earns the name "in Action" by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you'll need to confidently build the sites and applications you-and your clients-have been wanting for years.
What's Inside
• New semantic elements and form input types
• Single-page application design
• Creating interactive graphics
• Mobile web apps
Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION
• HTML5: from documents to applications
PART 2 BROWSER-BASED APPS
• Form creation: input widgets, data binding, and data validation
• File editing and management: rich formatting, file storage, drag and drop
• Messaging: communicating to and from scripts in HTML5
• Mobile applications: client storage and offline execution
PART 3 INTERACTIVE GRAPHICS, MEDIA, AND GAMING
• 2D Canvas: low-level, 2D graphics rendering
• SVG: responsive in-browser graphics
• Video and audio: playing media in the browser
• WebGL: 3D application development
• Plus 10 Appendixes