Chapter 11 Geolocation, Offline Web Apps, and Web Storage
Much of what is loosely considered to be a part of HTML5 isn’t, strictly speaking, HTML at all—it’s a set of additional APIs that provide a wide variety of tools to make our websites even better. We introduced the concept of an API way back in Chapter 1, but here’s a quick refresher: an API is an interface for programs. So, rather than a visual interface where a user clicks on a button to make something happen, an API gives your code a virtual “button” to press in the form of a method it calls, giving it access to a set of functionality.
In this chapter, we’ll be covering three APIs: Geolocation, Offline Web Applications, and Web Storage. With these APIs, we can find a visitor’s ...
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