HTML5 – Up and Running: Dive Into the Future of Web Development (OREILLY) - Softcover

Pilgrim, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0596806027 ISBN 13: 9780596806026

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2010

Synopsis

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

About this title

About the Author

Mark Pilgrim is an accessibility architect by day. By night, he is a husband and father who lives in North Carolina with his wife, his son, and his dog. Mark spends his copious free time sunbathing, skydiving, and reading Immanuel Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason in the original Klingon. He can be found stirring up trouble at diveintomark.org.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0596806027
• ISBN 13: 9780596806026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240