Book Description
Summary
HTML5 in Action provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. You'll explore every aspect of the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It's much more than just a specification reference, though. It lives up to the name HTML5 in Action by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you'll need to use key features.
About the Technology
HTML5 is not a few new tags and features added to an old standardit’s the foundation of the modern web, enabling its interactive services, single-page UI, interactive games, and complex business applications. With support for standards-driven mobile app development, powerful features like local storage and WebSockets, superb audio and video APIs, and new layout options using CSS3, SVG, and Canvas, HTML5 has entered its prime time.
About the Book
HTML5 in Action provides a complete introduction to web development using HTML5. It explores the HTML5 specification through real-world examples and code samples. It earns the name “in Action” by giving you the practical, hands-on guidance you’ll need to confidently build the sites and applications youand your clientshave been wanting for years.
This book concentrates on new HTML5 features and assumes you are familiar with standard HTML.
What’s Inside
New semantic elements and form input types
Single-page application design
Creating interactive graphics
Mobile web apps
About the Authors
Rob Crowther is a web developer and blogger and the author of Manning's Hello! HTML5 & CSS3. Joe Lennon is an enterprise mobile application developer. Ash Blue builds award-winning interactive projects. Greg Wanish is an independent web and eCommerce developer.
Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Brief Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About this Book
- Part 1. Introduction
- Part 2. Browser-based apps
- Part 3. Interactive graphics, media, and gaming
- Appendix A. HTML5 and related specifications
- Appendix B. HTML5 API reference
- Appendix C. Installing PHP and MySQL
- Appendix D. Computer networking primer
- Appendix E. Setting up Node.js
- Appendix F. Channel messaging
- Appendix G. Tools and libraries
- Appendix H. Encoding with FFmpeg
- Appendix I. HTML next
- Appendix J. Links and references
- Index
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Listings
Product Information
- Title: HTML5 in Action
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2014
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617290497