Als neueste Version der Markup-Sprache ist HTML5 vor allem praxisorientiert und auf die Entwicklung echter Webapplikationen abgestimmt - es erleichtert die Gestaltung von Webseiten mit lokaler Speicherung, macht 2-D-Zeichnungen, Geolocation und Offline-Unterstutzung fur Webanwendungen moglich, und unterstutzt das Einbinden von Video- und Audio-Dateien ohne zusatzliches Plug-in. "HTML5-Programmierung von Kopf bis Fu" vermittelt in bewahrter Von Kopf bis Fu-Tradition anhand zahlreicher praktischer Beispiele, grafischer Elemente und Ubungen auf kluge und spielerische Art die Neuerungen, die HTML5 so spannend machen und sorgt gleichzeitig dafur, dass Ihnen das Lernen nicht nur Spa macht, sondern Sie auch behalten, was Sie gelesen haben. Dieses Buch wendet sich hierbei an Entwickler von Webanwendungen, die bereits HTML- und CSS-Kenntnisse mitbringen und die ihre Konzentration voll auf die Neuerungen und Verbesserungen von HTML5 richten wollen.
Eric Freeman is a computer scientist with a passion for media and software architectures and coauthor of Head First Design Patterns. He just wrapped up four years at a dream job-- directing internet broadband and wireless efforts at Disney--and is now back to writing, creating cool software, and hacking Java and Macs. Eric spent a lot of the '90s working on alternatives to the desktop metaphor with David Gelernter (and they're both still asking the question, "Why do I have to give a file a name?"). Based on this work, Eric landed a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1997. He also co-founded Mirror Worlds Technologies (now acquired) to create a commercial version of his thesis work, Lifestreams.
In a previous life, Eric built software for networks and supercomputers. You might know him from such books as JavaSpaces Principles Patterns and Practice. Eric has fond memories of implementing tuple-space systems on Thinking Machine CM-5s and creating some of the first internet information systems for NASA in the late 1980s.
When he's not writing text or code you'll find him spending more time tweaking than watching his home theater and trying to restore a circa 1980s Dragon's Lair video game. He also wouldn't mind moonlighting as an electronica DJ.
Write to him at eric at wickedlysmart dot com or visit him at http://www.ericfreeman.com .
Elisabeth Robson (formerly Freeman) is coauthor of O'Reilly's Head First Design Patterns and Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML. She is currently Special Projects Director at O'Reilly where she is developing new brain-friendly learning ideas and products.
