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JavaScript: Novice to Ninja
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JavaScript: Novice to Ninja

by Darren Darren Jones Jones
November 2014
Beginner
500 pages
9h 20m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 14HTML5 APIs

HTML5 is the latest iteration of the Hypertext Markup Language used to create web pages. This version goes beyond the actual markup language, however, and brings together a number of related technologies such as CSS and JavaScript. We’ve already seen in Chapter 8 some of the new form elements as well as the validation API that has been introduced. In this chapter, we’ll be looking at some of the other APIs that have been made available in HTML5.

In this chapter, we’ll cover the following topics:

  • the development of HTML5 and the JavaScript APIs

  • the data- attribute

  • HTML5 APIs―local storage, geolocation, web workers, and multimedia

  • drawing shapes with canvas

  • shims and polyfills―how to make the most of HTML5 APIs, even when ...

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