HTML5 in Action

Appendix I. HTML next

This book concentrates on how best to use the major features of HTML5 available in browsers right now. In this appendix, we’ll look at HTML5 capabilities that aren’t yet finalized and are under heavy development in a browser’s beta versions, such as video captioning, media capture, and full-screen modes. You’ll also learn about several proposed features so you can plan for these features of the future web platform, such as peer-to-peer connectivity (for example, for video conferencing) and rotation lock (so that games on mobile devices don’t keep flipping between landscape and portrait modes).

Specifically, we’ll cover the following:

• Accessing and sharing media
• Providing subtitling and captions for media
• Capturing ...