C H A P T E R 7
User Interaction and the HTML5 APIs
Included in the HTML5 specification is documentation on how HTML elements, as well as the wider web browser environment, can be accessed from a programmed script. This is a component of the specification that is interwoven throughout the specification. Each component that can be scripted is broken into application programming interfaces (APIs) that define how the script can interface with specific elements on the page and specific aspects of the web browser. Some of these APIs are included as part of HTML5, such as the History API for manipulating the browser's forward and back buttons programmatically, while others are part of associated technologies and are covered in separate (but interlinked) ...
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