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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.
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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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