HTML5: Your visual blueprint for designing rich Web pages and applications

Adam McDaniel

John Wiley & Sons, Oct 20, 2011 - Computers - 384 pages

Use the latest version of HTML to create dynamic Web pages

HTML5 is the latest iteration of the standard markup language for creating Web pages. It boasts extensive updates from its predecessor and allows you to incorporate rich media content into a site without any dependence on extra software such as Flash. Packed with hundreds of screen shots, this visual guide introduces you to the many new features and abilities of HTML5 and shows you the many exciting new possibilities that exist for designing dynamic Web pages.

• Offers visual learners a solid reference on HTML5, the latest version of the standard markup language for designing Web pages
• Demonstrates how to use HTML5 to create Web pages that feature the latest in rich media content
• Provides easy-to-understand examples that cover a variety of topics to get you up and running with HTML5
• Features a companion Web site that contains all the code needed to learn HTML5
• HTML5: Your visual blueprint for designing effective Web pages opens your eyes to the world of possibilities that exist with the new version of the popular markup language.

Adam R. McDaniel  is a Web developer, technical architect, and security analyst, who has contributed to the Linux Kernel.

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Contents

• Introducing HTML5: 2
• Understanding Backward Compatibility: 8
• Understanding Obsolete HTML Tags and Attributes: 16
• Support HTML5 in Internet Explorer with a Plugin: 22
• Declare Header and Footer Layout Elements: 30
• Declare Heading and Paragraph Layout Elements: 36
• Provide a Fallback for Outdated Web Browsers: 42
• Introducing CSS3: 60
• Select an HTML Element Using a Specific Attribute Value: 66
• Select an HTML Element Using the Structural child PseudoClass: 72
• Change an Elements Background Image: 78
• Introducing the Flexible Box Model: 106
• Stretch and Shrink Objects in a Flexible Box: 112
• Introducing MultiColumn Layouts: 118
• Span Objects Horizontally across Columns: 124
• Introducing jQuery: 148
• Manipulate HTML Elements via the DOM: 154
• Add and Remove CSS Classes on Elements with jQuery: 160
• Launch the Chrome Inspector: 166
• Examine JavaScript Code: 172
• Add a Watch Expression: 178
• Declare a canvas Element: 186
• Draw Text on the Canvas: 192
• Using Radial Gradient Colors on the Canvas: 198
• Query Individual Canvas Pixels: 204
• Translate the X and YAxes: 210
• Introducing HTML5 Audio and Video: 218
• Reencode Movies with the Miro Video Converter: 224
• Control Audio and Video Playback with JavaScript: 230
• Specify Objects to Drag: 238
• Visually Enhance the DragandDrop Experience: 248
• Retrieve Data from the Web Storage API: 254
• Store an Object Using the IndexedDB API: 260
• Display a Specific Location with Google Maps: 282
• Display the Users Current Location with Google Maps: 288
• Create a Web Worker JavaScript File: 294
• Falling Back for NonWeb Worker Browsers: 300
• Introducing Desktop Notifications for Chrome: 312
• Launch a Desktop Notification Message: 318
• HTML5 Reference: 324
• HTML Metadata Tags: 330
• HTML Sectioning Tags: 336
• HTML Phrasing Tags: 342
• HTML Embedding Tags: 349
• HTML Table Tags: 355
• Index: 363

About the author

Adam McDaniel has been designing, developing, modifying, and maintaining computer programs of one language or another since 1993, and he has been an active proponent of HTML since being introduced to the language in 1994.
Since that time, Adam has led a team of developers implementing an eCommerce fulfillment engine for a virtual shopping mall, designed hundreds of corporate websites, and developed front-end HTML and back-end CGI infrastructure for CADVision, at the time one of the largest ISPs in Western Canada. In 2001, Adam moved into the software security sector, working for Hitachi ID Systems for over eight years, designing and implementing software security recommendations for various Fortune 500 companies across the United States and Europe. Soon afterwards, based on his past CGI experience, Adam wrote his first book, Perl and Apache: Your visual blueprint to developing dynamic Web content. Most recently, Adam rejoined the HTML world as the lead OS architect for Jolicloud, a Paris-based company, contributing to its HTML5 Linux operating system.
As Adam is always interested in new technologies and architectures, his other development credits include an open-source offline HTML reader for the Palm OS platform, contributions to the Linux Kernel, and other utility and specialty programs. In 2006, Adam produced the Array.org Netbook Kernel software download and website, allowing users to download an optimized build of the Linux kernel, specific for the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

Bibliographic information

• Title: HTML5: Your visual blueprint for designing rich Web pages and applications; Volume 37 of Visual Blueprint
• Author: Adam McDaniel
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 111820476X, 9781118204764
• Length: 384 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Internet / General; Computers / Programming Languages / HTML