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Dynamic Web Programming and HTML5
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Dynamic Web Programming and HTML5

by Paul S. Wang
November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
664 pages
15h 56m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 7

HTML5 DOM and APIs

Webpages as user interfaces can become even more responsive, dynamic, and functional if we give JavaScript maximum control over all aspects of a webpage. An important aspect of the new HTML5 standard is the establishment of APIs giving JavaScript much more control over many aspects of a webpage. More important APIs are listed here; some of these APIs are still under development.

•  The HTML5 DOM API—for access, traversal, and manipulation of the DOM tree, manipulation of HTML element objects and other node objects on the DOM tree.

•  The Canvas API—for drawing graphics, manipulating images, making transformations and compositions, performing animations as well as responding to user interface events.

•  The Drag-and-Drop ...

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