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The Modern Web

by Peter Gasston

April 2013

Intermediate to advanced

264 pages

7h 44m

English

No Starch Press

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The HTML5 TemplateNew Best Practices
Vendor-Specific PrefixesCSS Frameworks and Preprocessors
What’s the Point?The Downside of HTML5 Sectioning Elements
The Microdata APIMicrodata, Microformats, and RDFaSchema.orgRich Snippets
The Data Attributes APIjQuery and Data AttributesData Attributes in the Wild
Media Features Based on DimensionsCombining and Negating Media QueriesA Quick Digression: All About PixelsScreen Resolution Media QueriesDevice AdaptationInput Mechanism Media FeaturesFurther Media Features
The box-sizing PropertyDynamic Calculations on Length Values
Root-Relative UnitsMobile First and Content Breakpoints
The Image ProblemThe HTML5 Responsive Images Solution
Gaps and RulesSpans and Breaks
Declaring the Flexbox ModelChanging the Content OrderAlignment Inside the ContainerAdding Some FlexibilityWrap and Flow
Declaring and Defining the GridRepeating Grid LinesPlacing Items on the GridAlignment and StackingThe September 2012 Grid Layout SyntaxOn the Grid Layout TerminologyGrid Template
The async and defer AttributesThe addEventListener MethodThe event ObjectRemoving Event ListenersThe DOMContentLoaded EventInput EventsTouch EventsPointer EventsCSS Selectors in JavaScriptThe getElementsByClassName() MethodInteracting with Classes
jQueryYepNopeModernizrMustache
Anatomy of an SVG ImageLinked SVG FilesSVG SpritesSVG Sprites with FragmentsEmbedded SVGSVG FiltersThe Convergence of SVG and CSSA Drawback of SVG
Image ManipulationWebGL
autofocusplaceholderautocompletespellcheckmultipleform
NumbersDatesColor
progressmeteroutput
Extra Attributes for the video ElementMultiple Source FilesFallbacksSubtitles and CaptionsEncoding
Network and Ready StatesExtra Properties for Audio and Video
Web Audio APIWebRTC
Hosted vs. Packaged AppsHosted Web AppsPackaged Web AppsManifest FilesThe Chrome Web StoreThe Firefox MarketplaceW3C Widgets
PhoneGapGranting PermissionsThe PhoneGap APIPhoneGap EventsTitanium
Contents of the AppCache FileThe Caching SequenceThe AppCache API
TemplatesDecoratorsScoped StylesScoped Styles and TemplatesCustom ElementsThe Shadow DOMPutting It All Together
RegionsExclusionsExclusions and GridsShaped ExclusionsEven Further Future LayoutsBox AlignmentLine GridPaged MediaFeature QueriesCascading Variables

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Peter Gasston's The Modern Web will guide you through the latest and most important tools of device-agnostic web development, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

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