HTML5 Unleashed

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Features

• Most up-to-date book on HTML5
• Among the most comprehensive HTML5 books on the market
• Stand-alone chapters allow the topics to be taught in any order
• Book can function as a tutoral or all-encompassing learning/teaching tool

Description

HTML5 Unleashed is the authoritative guide that covers the key web components driving the future of the Web. Harness the power of HTML5 to create web apps and solutions that deliver state-of-the-art media content and interactivity with new Audio, Video, and Canvas elements.

HTML5 technologies are essential knowledge for today's web developers and designers. New APIs such as Local Storage, Geolocation, Web Workers, and more expand the Web as a platform, allowing for desktop-like applications that work uniformly across platforms.

Comprehensive and up-to-date, HTML5 Unleashed is organized as an accessible guide of tutorials and practical references. Because HTML5 covers a far-reaching set of standards, each chapter in HTML5 Unleashed is written to stand on its own. Whether you choose to skip around or read it cover to cover, full-color syntax and figures in HTML5 Unleashed ensure that you do not need to be next to a computer to learn the most important concepts of the modern Web.

• Use new HTML5 features and syntax to create common web page components in a standardized way, with less code
• Ensure graceful backward compatibility with "polyfilling" libraries, so users of older browsers are not left behind
• Harness the power of semantic HTML5 tags and Microdata to improve your site accessibility and search engine results
• Create consistent, rich user experiences across desktop and mobile platforms with the new Audio and Video elements
• Create HTML5 Canvas web applications, with chapters dedicated to Canvas interactivity and Canvas performance
• Utilize the new functionality of Geolocation to display locality-aware content to users and harness the power of GPS
• Use the new Local Storage options to build pages that work offline and robust apps that can store heavyweight data client-side
• Allow more sophisticated page communication with Cross-Document Messaging and enable multithreaded JavaScript with Web Workers
• Communicate with servers in real-time with WebSockets and take advantage of the new Ajax possibilities with XMLHttpRequest Level 2

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Table of Contents

Introduction    1

Who Should Read This Book?     2

HTML5 and Related Technologies    2

Software Requirements    3

Code Examples    3

How This Book Is Organized    3

Part I: Background    4

Part II: New HTML Elements    4

Part III: Canvas    4

Part IV: HTML5’s JavaScript APIs    4

Links and Real-World Examples    5

Chapter 1: Why HTML5?     7

How Did We End Up Here?     7

The Web Takes Off    9

The Rise of the Browser Plug-In    9

Web 2.0    10

HTML5    11

What Exactly Is HTML5?     11

The Importance of HTML5    12

Are Plug-ins Dead?     14

Summary    14

Chapter 2: Important Concepts for HTML5    15

The Goals of HTML5    15

Improving the Native Web    15

More Done with Less Code    16

The Semantic Web    16

Requisites for HTML5 Development    16

Modern Browser Developer Tools    16

HTML5 Fallbacks: Shims, Shivs, and Polyfills    17

Feature Support and Detection    18

Summary    19

Chapter 3: Getting Started with HTML5: Semantic Tags, Forms, and Drag and Drop 21

Ensuring Backward Compatibility with the New HTML Tags    21

The HTML5 Shim    22

HTML5 Boilerplate    23

Starting from the Top    23

The Doctype    23

Meta Character Encoding    24

HTML5 Syntax and Validation    24

How You Should Write Your HTML    27

Housekeeping    29

HTML5 Semantic Elements and Other Presentational Tags    31

HTML5 Semantic Tags    31

Document Outlines in HTML5    33

Minor Semantic and Presentational HTML5 Tags    35

Visual HTML5 Tags: <meter> and <progress>    37

HTML5 Forms    40

Form Input Types    40

New Form Input Attributes and Elements    47

Drag and Drop in HTML5    53

The Basics    53

Drag Data and Effects    55

Drag Events    58

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