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Publication Date: 24 Aug 2010 | ISBN-10: 0596806027 | ISBN-13: 978-0596806026 | Edition: 1

If you don't know about the new features available in HTML5, now's the time to find out. This book provides practical information about how and why the latest version of this markup language will significantly change the way you develop for the Web.

HTML5 is still evolving, yet browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, Opera, and Chrome already support many of its features -- and mobile browsers are even farther ahead. HTML5: Up & Running carefully guides you though the important changes in this version with lots of hands-on examples, including markup, graphics, and screenshots. You'll learn how to use HTML5 markup to add video, offline capabilities, and more -- and you’ll be able to put that functionality to work right away.

  • Learn new semantic elements, such as <header>, <footer>, and <section>
  • Meet Canvas, a 2D drawing surface you can program with JavaScript
  • Embed video in your web pages without third-party plugins
  • Use Geolocation to let web application visitors share their physical location
  • Take advantage of local storage capacity that goes way beyond cookies
  • Build offline web applications that work after network access is disconnected
  • Learn about several new input types for web forms
  • Create your own custom vocabularies in HTML5 with microdata

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  • Paperback: 222 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (24 Aug 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596806027
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596806026
  • Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 1.1 x 23.3 cm
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Dive into the Future of Web Development

About the Author

Mark Pilgrim works as a developer advocate for Google, specializing in open source and open standards. You may remember him from such classics as Greasemonkey Hacks (O'Reilly), Dive Into Python (Apress), and Dive Into Python 3 (APress). He lives in North Carolina with his wife, two boys, and a big slobbery dog.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too much chatter, too little detail 24 Sep 2010
By Andor Admiraal
Format:Paperback
I must say: I enjoyed going through this book. It is written in an opinionated and slightly irreverent style, so I found it a mildly amusing read.

That being said: why do people buy a book on HTML5? Some would like to have a good in-depth reference on the ins and outs of the new language. Well now - that's not this book. Others might be new to web development and think learning HTML5 would be a good starting point. While they are right that HTML (5 or 4) is the place to start, this book surely isn't.

There's some depth when it comes to background, but much less when it comes to HTML5 itself or how to use it. True, the <canvas> tag and geolocation are covered pretty much in detail, but the author made some hard to defend choices in spending his paper estate.

HTML5 gives us no more than a handful of new tags, still some of those (<mark> and <section>, for example) are simply mentioned once and that's that. No examples, no advise on where to use them, nothing on browser support. Yet the book takes five pages at the start to tell the story of how the img-tag came into being some 15 years ago. Again, mildly amusing, but probably not the reason you are thinking of buying this book.

Another example: there are 10 pages with a primer on audio and video codecs, plus another 19 (!) detailed pages (with lots of screen shots) on how to use a number of specific and probably soon outdated software tools to encode video for the web. All fine for those who are completely new to video encoding and believe a book on HTML5 should be the starting point for that.... Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Introduction 7 Oct 2010
By Martin Packer
Format:Paperback
This is a good introduction at a time when things in the HTML and CSS world don't seem entirely set in concrete. Some areas will need a deeper treatment later. If, as I did, you just wanted a "getting started" view this is a good one. Wishing there were a similar book for CSS3.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Extensive book about simple topic 18 Jan 2013
By Damiaan
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This book is available online for free. Maintained by the author. [...] I tried to read the complete book on the website, but failed. The website is good as a reference, but the book throws you into HTML 5. Suddenly I understood WHAT html5 stands for and why every web builder should use it. Not just because it is cool.

The book is wel written and gives you great insights.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Usefull book, easy to understand 12 Jan 2013
By Sarah
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I have purchased several of these books on various topics because I find them very helpfull and easy to follow. Would recommend this book for anyone requiring extra help with HTML5.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, compact and useful 23 July 2011
By Swansil
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This manual is perfect for those who need or want to be up to date with the new HTML5.
Highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction 24 April 2011
By David Cross
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Mark Pilgrim has written a really useful introduction to the new technologies that are driving HTML5 adoption. If you're creating HTML for web sites then I recommend this book.

I'm not a web site designer, but I've always tried to produce web sites that use valid HTML. And then when the current standard switched from HTML to XHTML I converted most of my web sites to the new standard. A couple of years ago, some friends started talking about HTML5 being a replacement for XHTML. I was tired of converting my web sites, so I pretty much ignored them.

And then last year more and more people started talking about HTML5. It was obviously time to investigate further. And Mark Pilgrim's book seemed as good a place as any to start.

It turns out that HTML5 is rather more than just a mark-up language. It's a term that encompasses a number of new technology standards that will be driving web application development for many years to come.

Pilgrim explains all the new elements that are available in HTML5. Some of these, obviously, won't be supported by older browsers so, perhaps more importantly, he also covers how to detect which features are supported on a browser which is visiting your site. In each case, he explains the nuts and bolts of how it would be done, but then he also describes how it can be done far more easily using the Modernizr Javascript library.

The most interesting new features to me are the native support for audio and video (although there is still some disagreement between browser makers as to which formats are supported) and the canvas element which will finally allow some powerful graphical effects to be produced in a manner which will work well across most (if not all) browsers.... Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good starter book 4 Dec 2010
By Alessio Bragadini
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I expected a larger book, this is in fact a quick introduction to most elements of HTML5 including the markup, the offline API, the Geolocation API, etc. It's quite good at what it does but doesn't go into deep details, except for the chapter on microformats which stands apart from the rest of the book. This is especially interesting since Mr Pilgrim works at Google and you can see the power of microformats when used by a search engine.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Nice introduction but far from complete 21 Nov 2010
By Horst Gutmann
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Disclaimer: I've received a review copy of this book from O'Reilly.

For the impatient among you a short summary: HTML5: Up and Running is a book presenting you some of the more prominent features of HTML5 including canvas, localStorage and the applicationCache. It sadly leaves out a whole range of other features like WebSockets and the data-attributes. Also the writing style reminds you often enough that this book was created out of the author's Dive Into HTML5 project with each chapter and subchapter being able to stand alone which (thanks to the repetition of explanations et al.) makes reading certain chapters not all that pleasant. In general, if you want a book that teaches you some of the new core features of HTML5 and you really want a book, this might be something for you.

This book is described on the publisher's website as a "guide [...] through the important changes" that come with HTML5. The focus here lies on features like the new form-elements, canvas, video and audio integration, localStorage and the applicationCache as well as the microdata component of HTML5. All these are presented with a couple of examples so you should know how to use them for basic operations after reading the respective chapters.

HTML5 is put into perspective with the first chapter that tells some of the history of HTML and how changes to the language have been proposed in the past and how HTML5 came to be. Even if you have known most of this before, it is a nicely written summary.

But back to the present. Sadly the described range of features is far from covering all that is important about HTML5. The author forgot about things like the sessionStorage, WebWorkers, WebSockets or the data-attributes.... Read more ›
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