Deploying HTML5 [Kindle Edition]

Aditya Yadav (Author)

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Product Description

Provides a comprehensive look at the HTML 5 standard as implemented by the top 5 browsers i.e. Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari. It covers HTML 5 Structure, Semantics, SVG/MathML, WebForms, Canvas, Native Drag & Drop, Browser History Management, Inline Document Editing, Cross Document/Domain Messaging, Offline Applications Caching & WebDatabases, Audio & Video & Related Tools, GeoLocation, Local & Session Storage, Server Side Events, Workers, Web Sockets. Besides providing practical real world examples for each of the features each chapter contains explanation of the HTML 5 specification for each feature so that you understand what can be expected when they are implemented fully by the browser vendors. Also includes explanation of plugins and third party libraries used in HTML 5 development. We shall be using the JQuery Javascript library extensively. Also web socket chapter contains examples using Netty and Jetty to create WebSocket Servers.

It is intended for developers, QA, analysts and architects who are building next generation web applications using HTML 5 and are tasked with analysis, development and QA of such systems. It is also intended for students and freshers who are planning to take up web application development or leaders who want to understand how HTML 5 can be capitalized upon. This can be used as one single reference and guide for any future web application development as far as HTML is concerned. When this book will be the first book available worldwide on HTML 5.

About the Author

Aditya has been involved with Software Engineering before the time Internet came to India in 1992-1993. During his more than a decade of industry stint he has played the roles of developer, analyst, product manager through CTO. He is the founder of one of the top 25 startups in India. Before he took his sabbatical to write this book he was a Sr. Architect at Thoughtworks. And is a well known Agile coach. Leads an independant consulting company Aditya Yadav & Associates which offers Technology and Technology strategy consulting services to Fortune companies. He is a contrarian when it comes to SOA & EAI on which he believes there is no need for Governance or COE's and has proven his approach over the years successfully. Aditya is a Cloud Computing evangelist and has been following this space since Amazon launched AWS. He is technology, platform and domain agnostic and specialises in Internet Scale Architectures. When he is not doing something related to software development. He is busy composing music, learning guitar and swimming. Aditya has been a long distance 24 hour swimmer since his college days. He has a B.Tech and M.Tech degree from Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India. The author can be reached via http://adityayadav.com

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 3461 KB
• Print Length: 224 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1451589549
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: CreateSpace (April 4, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B003FGWU3Q
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #405,358 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

Aditya has been involved with Software Engineering before the time Internet came to India in 1992-1993. During his more than a decade of industry stint he has played the roles of developer, analyst, product manager through CTO. He is the founder of one of the top 25 startups in India. Before he took his sabbatical to write books he was a Sr. Architect at Thoughtworks. And is a well known Agile coach. Leads an independant consulting company Aditya Yadav & Associates which offers Technology and Technology strategy consulting services to Fortune companies. He is a contrarian when it comes to SOA & EAI on which he believes there is no need for Governance or COE's and has proven his approach over the years successfully. Aditya is a Cloud Computing evangelist and has been following this space since Amazon launched AWS. He is technology, platform and domain agnostic and specialises in Internet Scale Architectures.

When he is not doing something related to software development. He is busy composing music, learning guitar and swimming. Aditya has been a long distance 24 hour swimmer since his college days. He has a B.Tech and M.Tech degree from
Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India.

The author can be reached via http://adityayadav.com

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars An utter mess, April 8, 2010

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Joseph P. Huckaby (Elk, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deploying HTML5 (Kindle Edition)

Unfortunately, this book is a complete mess. It looks like the author wrote the whole thing -- text, code samples, lists, tables and all -- in Microsoft Word, saved it as plain text, then had Amazon convert that to Kindle format. It is absolutely awful. The book text and sample HTML are often in the same font, crammed together on the page or worse. Tables and lists are all over the place, impossible to read and often have unprintable characters.

I should say that this may be the fault of amazon. The hardcopy version may look fine. But this review is for the kindle version specifically. I am sorry to say, this is the worst $45 I have ever spent. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK. At least, not for the kindle.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Good Start, May 23, 2010

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R. Ravuri "ramdev" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deploying HTML5 (Paperback)

I am a developer, but I know nothing about the HTML5, so this book sounded perfect for me.

It's a very quick read: I read the whole book (< 250 pages) during a 3 hour ride back home this weekend. The prose is clear with very little fluff. The author went through the specification with plenty of examples and straight forward explanation.

I was able to grasp most of the HTML5 specification pretty quick. The chapters specifically GeoLocation, Web Storage and Server Sent Events are very interesting and the examples are very straight forward.

Since this is a first a book on HTML5, I did not have lot of expectations from this book, but definitely exceeded my expectations. Now I am excited to start developing my web application using HTML 5.

I would strongly recommend this book to everyone interested in HTML 5.

7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Apologies, April 9, 2010

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Aditya Yadav "Aditya Yadav & Associates" (Bangalore, India) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Deploying HTML5 (Kindle Edition)

Hi Joseph,

This is Aditya the author of this book. I'm extremely sorry about the mess over the kindle version. I had uploaded a fully formatted PDF, something would have seriously gone wrong in the conversion to kindle. I will try to fix it over the weekend and/or get in touch with Amazon to figure it out.

In the meanwhile please send me a test email on aditya AT adityayadav DOT com and I will send you a DRM free PDF copy of the same thing. And hopefully to compensate for the bad experience please allow me to offer you any one book of your choice from [']


I would also like to take the opportunity to make the same offer to anyone who has purchased the kindle version. Please send me an email with a snapshot of proof of purchase and I will send you the PDF version of this book and also any one book of your choice from the above two links. If they are not already published I will send them to you as soon as they are published should you choose.

I am offering you two books for the price of one but I cannot revert the bad experience and frustration you might have encountered. I hope you will forgive me.

Sincerely
Aditya Yadav
['] (Anyone who prefers a PDF version instead of the Kindle version can purchase it from the books section on this website)