Smashing HTML5

Front Cover
John Wiley & Sons, Nov 5, 2010 - Computers - 320 pages
Welcome to HTML5 - the future of the Web

HTML5 is packed with great new features, including new content-specific elements, audio and video playback, canvas for drawing, and many others. But where to begin? With Smashing HTML5, you have everything you need to get up and running quickly.

Bill Sanders is a professional Web developer, information and interface designer, and instructor. His expertise and knowledge shared throughout Smashing HTML5 will help fast-track you toward building next-generation Web sites.

Smashing HTML5 provides comprehensive coverage - from how to get started with HTML5 to optimizing media on the Web. You will learn how to use text, graphics, audio, video, and navigation in HTML5 Web pages running in compatible browsers.

You will also learn how to:

  • Work with HTML5 tags
  • Design page structure
  • Make site navigation easy for your audience
  • Integrate media including video into HTML5 pages
  • Harness the power of the HTML5 canvas
  • Use HTML 5 forms
  • Create interactivity, store information, and much more

Smashing HTML5 is an essential read for Web designers and developers looking to transition to HTML5. With this book, you'll be able to create Web pages that not only look great, but also take advantage of the new features HTML5 has to offer.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Contents
1
Understanding HTML5 Tags
27
Text Tags and a Little CSS3
43
PAGES SITES AND DESIGNS
83
Complex Tables
120
All About Links
127
Navigation Strategies
147
MEDIA IN HTML5
176
Video
215
Making Videos for the Web
222
DYNAMIC HTML5 TAGS PLUS A LITTLE
231
Take the Wheel
281
Embedding Objects and Storing Information
305
Catching Interactive Data
325
Index
345
Copyright

Take the Wheel
196

Common terms and phrases

&nbsp Adobe Apple Safari array assigned AT&T attribute audio autoplay background-color Blog body Bookmarks browsing context button canvas caption chapter chapter's folder charset=UTF-8 codec container content="text/html create developers different browsers display DOCTYPE document Document Object Model e-mail event handler example figcaption Figure Firefox folder at www.wiley.com/go folder at www.wiley.com/go/smashinghtml5 font-family font-family:"Arial Black font-family:Verdana format function Geneva geolocation head header hexadecimal href HTML5 browsers HTML5 CSS3 icon iframe input element Internet Explorer iPhone JavaScript JPEG label load look menu meta http-equiv="Content-Type mobile browsers mobile device Mozilla Firefox object Opera browser Opera Mini option param pixels preload properties radians Safari browser sans-serif screen script type="text/javascript server shows Smashing Magazine sound storage style sheet style type="text/css TextEdit users variable versions window

About the author (2010)

William Sanders (Hartford, CT) is a Professor of Multimedia Web Design and Development at the University of Hartford, and the owner of Sandlight Productions (founded 1984.) Sanders is a professional web developer, information and interface designer and avid coder, and the author of more than 20 other books dealing with Internet and Web technology including JavaScript, HTML, ActionScript, Flash. ASP.NET, C#, PHP, Perl, streaming video and Flash Catalyst.

Bibliographic information

TitleSmashing HTML5
Smashing magazine book series
AuthorBill Sanders
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN0470977345, 9780470977347
Length320 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Computers / Desktop Applications / General
Computers / Languages / HTML
Computers / Software Development & Engineering / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan