HTML5: Up and Running Dive into the Future of Web Development

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Название:HTML5: Up and Running Dive into the Future of Web Development

Автор: Mark Pilgrim

Издательство: O'Reilly Media

Год: 2010

Страниц:222

Язык: English

Формат: pdf

Размер: 4 Mb

If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. This book provides practical information about how and why the latest version of this markup language will significantly change the way you develop for the Web.

HTML5 is still evolving, yet browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, Opera, and Chrome already support many of its features -- and mobile browsers are even farther ahead. HTML5: Up & Running carefully guides you though the important changes in this version with lots of hands-on examples, including markup, graphics, and screenshots. You'll learn how to use HTML5 markup to add video, offline capabilities, and more -- and you’ll be able to put that functionality to work right away.

Learn new semantic elements, such as , , and

Meet Canvas, a 2D drawing surface you can program with javascript

Embed video in your web pages without third-party plugins

Use Geolocation to let web application visitors share their physical location

Take advantage of local storage capacity that goes way beyond cookies

Build offline web applications that work after network access is disconnected

Learn about several new input types for web forms

Create your own custom vocabularies in HTML5 with microdata

A Timeline of HTML Development from 1997 to 2004

Everything You Know About XHTML Is Wrong

A Competing Vision

What Working Group?

Back to the W3C

Postscript

Further Reading

Chapter 2 Detecting HTML5 Features

Diving In

Detection Techniques

Modernizr: An HTML5 Detection Library

Canvas

Canvas Text

Video

Video Formats

Local Storage

Web Workers

Offline Web Applications

Geolocation

Input Types

Placeholder Text

Form Autofocus

Microdata

Further Reading

Chapter 3 What Does It All Mean?

Diving In

The Doctype

The Root Element

The Element

New Semantic Elements in HTML5

A Long Digression into How Browsers Handle Unknown Elements

Headers

Articles

Dates and Times

Navigation

Footers

Further Reading

Chapter 4 Let’s Call It a Draw(ing Surface)

Diving In

Simple Shapes

Canvas Coordinates

Paths

Text

Gradients

Images

What About IE?

A Complete Example

Further Reading

Chapter 5 Video on the Web

Diving In

Video Containers

Video Codecs

Audio Codecs

What Works on the Web

Licensing Issues with H.264 Video

Encoding Ogg Video with Firefogg

Batch Encoding Ogg Video with ffmpeg2theora

Encoding H.264 Video with HandBrake

Batch Encoding H.264 Video with HandBrake

Encoding WebM Video with ffmpeg

At Last, the Markup

What About IE?

A Complete Example

Further Reading

Chapter 6 You Are Here (And So Is Everybody Else)

Diving In

The Geolocation API

Show Me the Code

Handling Errors

Choices! I Demand Choices!

What About IE?

geo.js to the Rescue

A Complete Example

Further Reading

Chapter 7 The Past, Present, and Future of Local Storage for Web Applications

Diving In

A Brief History of Local Storage Hacks Before HTML5

Introducing HTML5 Storage

Using HTML5 Storage

HTML5 Storage in Action

Beyond Named Key/Value Pairs: Competing Visions

Further Reading

Chapter 8 Let’s Take This Offline

Diving In

The Cache Manifest

The Flow of Events

The Fine Art of Debugging, a.k.a. “Kill Me! Kill Me Now!”

Let’s Build One!

Further Reading

Chapter 9 A Form of Madness

Diving In

Placeholder Text

Autofocus Fields

Email Addresses

Web Addresses

Numbers As Spinboxes

Numbers As Sliders

Date Pickers

Search Boxes

Color Pickers

And One More Thing...

Further Reading

Chapter 10 “Distributed,” “Extensibility,” and Other Fancy Words

Diving In

What Is Microdata?

The Microdata Data Model

Marking Up People

Marking Up Organizations

Marking Up Events

Marking Up Reviews

Further Reading

Appendix The All-in-One Almost-Alphabetical Guide to Detecting Everything

List of Elements

Further Reading

Colophon