June 2011
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
7h 28m
English
book
HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers
by Marco Casario, Peter Elst, Charles Brown, Nathalie Wormser, Cyril Hanquez
Overview
HTML5 brings the biggest changes that HTML has seen in years. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics directly onto a web page without the need for a plugin. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. HTML5 Solutions provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production ready and can be applied to any project.
What you'll learn
Real-world solutions for everyday HTML development, saving hours of frustration. Problems covered include:
Sending Multi-bit rate videos to different devices
Creating custom video components
Programming a custom video controller
Designing a canvas with custom gradients
Capturing and drawing images
Storing data offline using the Web SQL Databases
Dragging data from the desktop into the browser
Creating HTML5 Web Sockets
Who this book is for
Web developers and designers wanting practical advice on making HTML5 sites work.
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