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HTML5 continues to evolve, browsers are implementating at break-neck speed and HTML5 web sites spring up like flowers after rain. More than ever, you need to get acquainted with the powerful new possibilities in web and application design. That’s why we’ve crafted a second edition of this book to help you stay on top of current developments.
This book shows you how to start adapting the language now to realize its benefits on today’s browsers. It concentrates on the practical—the problems HTML5 can solve for you right away. By following the book’s hands-on HTML5 code examples you’ll learn about:
- new semantics and structures to help your site become richer and more accessible
- applying the most important JavaScript APIs that are already implemented
- using and controlling native multimedia
- how to build more intelligent web forms
- implementing new storage options and web databases, including both WebSQL and IndexedDB
- how geolocation works with HTML5 in both web and mobile applications
And this new edition adds:
- even more detail on canvas, geolocation and offline storage options
- a peek around the corner for audio and video’s new element, subtitling formats, in-browser web conference
- browser history controls to make applications more usable and bookmarkable
- ways to use HTML5 now in older browsers
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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HTML 5 is shifting ground. Anyone who seeks a book on this subject at this time should keep this in mind. It's settling down but any book is going to have trouble staying completely current. The authors acknowledge this continually throughout the book, pointing out what's new, what they think is likely to be shelved. So one thing that is frustrating about this book is that it gives the impression what you're reading is written on the wind a lot of the time. I haven't marked the score lower because of that because it's hard to avoid and because the book is not intended as a reference, but as (per the title), an introduction to HTML.
As an introduction to HTML, it serves well enough. You could just go to the W3C site and read through their HTML 5 section and get a lot of what is in HTML 5 yourself, but it's significantly more helpful to have a guided tour from a book like this. The book includes a fair amount of realish-world examples. It also devotes a good amount of space to supporting assistive technologies which is good.
As an introduction, the book serves its purpose. I can't imagine going back to this to re-read. I also have to mark it down because what is mildly tiresome juvenille humour at the start becomes downright wearying by the end. By the time the authors are telling me they're going to come round to my house and scribble on my FrontPage CD (yes, very funny LOLLOLOL, I do most of my webwork in Vi as it happens), I'm just wishing I'd found a book that had a bit more of a thorough, business-like approach. The authors seem to be "geeks" whereas what I want is just information, concise and to the point.
Still, the book is useful. It's good to have a decent view of what is now emerging so that you can work it in to your projects from the start right now.
As an introduction to HTML, it serves well enough. You could just go to the W3C site and read through their HTML 5 section and get a lot of what is in HTML 5 yourself, but it's significantly more helpful to have a guided tour from a book like this. The book includes a fair amount of realish-world examples. It also devotes a good amount of space to supporting assistive technologies which is good.
As an introduction, the book serves its purpose. I can't imagine going back to this to re-read. I also have to mark it down because what is mildly tiresome juvenille humour at the start becomes downright wearying by the end. By the time the authors are telling me they're going to come round to my house and scribble on my FrontPage CD (yes, very funny LOLLOLOL, I do most of my webwork in Vi as it happens), I'm just wishing I'd found a book that had a bit more of a thorough, business-like approach. The authors seem to be "geeks" whereas what I want is just information, concise and to the point.
Still, the book is useful. It's good to have a decent view of what is now emerging so that you can work it in to your projects from the start right now.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first edition of this book was (and still is) an excellent introduction to HTML5. It has only been surpassed as THE best introduction to HTML5 by this, its second edition. Highly recommended.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great book for those who already have some knowledge/experience of HTML, to switch over to HTML5.
Worth buying.
Boban
Worth buying.
Boban
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Disappointing, few not funny jokes and propaganda how awesome HTML5 is. I don't need that. If you really need a HTML5 book try HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow's Standards... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Swav
An essentiL book on HTML5
If you know Bruce and Rem from Twitter, then you'll know what sort of things to expect: there's plenty of technical what's why's and how's, delivered in light hearted and good... Read more
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Wonderful book
The first edition was a great introduction to HTML5, it kept things simple and clear. It wasn't an exhaustive reference, but enough to introduce you to the concepts, so that you... Read more
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The best Intro to HTML5 available
The first edition was the first HTML5 book I read and ever since have only had good words. It was one of the best programming books I've ever read. Read more
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