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HTML5 Programmer’s Reference
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HTML5 Programmer’s Reference

by Jonathan Reid
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
392 pages
8h 49m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 8

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HTML5 API Reference

This chapter provides a detailed reference for all of the new HTML5 JavaScript APIs. For a detailed discussion of these APIs, including examples and support level at time of press, see Chapter 3.

Server-sent Events

The Server-sent Events API enables an HTML5 client to subscribe to an event service published by a server. The server can then transmit events to the HTML5 client.

The API for server-sent events is an EventSource constructor in the global JavaScript scope. EventSource objects implement the EventTarget interface, similar to DOM elements (so events can be published on them, and event handlers registered on ...

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