CHAPTER 5

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Scripting Enhancements

In this chapter, I will demonstrate a few miscellaneous improvements that affect the scripting aspect of web development. So far, I have introduced the markup changes and the CSS enhancements. Scripting is the third leg of the overall HTML5 umbrella, and a significant amount of attention was given to this area. This chapter will explain some improvements that have broad application.

  • Query selectors
  • Web workers
  • Managing packages and builds

Package management is not actually part of HTML5 but is accomplished through open source tools such as Bower and Gulp, which have been integrated into Visual Studio.

Using Query ...

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