Dive Into HTML5
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English
ISBN
0596806027
Dive Into HTML5
Table of Contents
Five Things You Should Know About HTML5
1. It’s not one big thing
2. You don’t need to throw anything away
3. It’s easy to get started
4. It already works
5. It’s here to stay
How Did We Get Here?
Diving In
MIME types
A long digression into how standards are made
An unbroken line
A timeline of HTML development from 1997 to 2004
Everything you know about XHTML is wrong
A competing vision
WHAT Working Group?
Back to the W3C
Postscript
Further Reading
Detecting HTML5 Features
Diving In
Detection Techniques
Modernizr, an HTML5 Detection Library
Canvas
Canvas Text
Video
Video Formats
Local Storage
Web Workers
Offline Web Applications
Geolocation
Input Types
Placeholder Text
Form Autofocus
Microdata
History API
Further Reading
What Does It All Mean?
Diving In
The Doctype
The Root Element
The <head> Element
Character Encoding
Friends & (Link) Relations
rel = stylesheet
rel = alternate
Other Link Relations in HTML5
New Semantic Elements in HTML5
A long digression into how browsers handle unknown elements
Headers
Articles
Dates and Times
Navigation
Footers
Further Reading
Let’s Call It A Draw(ing Surface)
Diving In
Simple Shapes
Canvas Coordinates
Paths
Text
Gradients
Images
What About IE?
A Complete, Live Example
Further Reading
Video on the Web
Diving In
Video Containers
Video Codecs
H.264
Theora
VP8
Audio Codecs
MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
Advanced Audio Coding
Vorbis
What Works on the Web
Licensing Issues with H.264 Video
Encoding Video With Miro Video Converter
Encoding Ogg Video with Firefogg
Batch Encoding Ogg Video with ffmpeg2theora
Encoding H.264 Video with HandBrake
Batch Encoding H.264 Video with HandBrake
Encoding WebM Video with ffmpeg
At Last, The Markup
MIME Types Rear Their Ugly Head
What About IE?
Issues on iPhones and iPads
Issues on Android devices
A Complete, Live Example
Further Reading
You Are Here (And So Is Everybody Else)
Diving In
The Geolocation API
Show Me The Code
Handling Errors
Choices! I Demand Choices!
What About IE?
geo.js to the Rescue
A Complete, Live Example
Further Reading
The Past, Present & Future of Local Storage for Web Applications
Diving In
A Brief History of Local Storage Hacks Before HTML5
Introducing HTML5 Storage
Using HTML5 Storage
Tracking Changes to the HTML5 Storage Area
Limitations in Current Browsers
HTML5 Storage in Action
Beyond Named Key-Value Pairs: Competing Visions
Further Reading
Let’s Take This Offline
Diving In
The Cache Manifest
Network sections
Fallback Sections
The Flow of Events
The fine art of debugging, a.k.a. “Kill me! Kill me now!”
Let’s Build One!
Further Reading
A Form of Madness
Diving In
Placeholder Text
Autofocus Fields
Setting focus as early as possible
Email Addresses
Web Addresses
Numbers as Spinboxes
Numbers as Sliders
Date Pickers
Search Boxes
Color Pickers
Form Validation
Required Fields
Further Reading
“Distributed,” “Extensibility,” & Other Fancy Words
Diving In
What is Microdata?
The Microdata Data Model
Marking Up People
Introducing Google Rich Snippets
Marking Up Organizations
Marking Up Events
The Return of Google Rich Snippets
Marking Up Reviews
Further Reading
Manipulating History for Fun & Profit
Diving In
The Why
The How
Further Reading
The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything
Further Reading
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