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Deploying HTML5

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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.

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.

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)

When I think of deploying a new product or technology, I want to know how to use it appropriately for a specific audience, how to use it strategically for my business, and how to plan and test fallback options in case the whole thing blows up. If that is the same "deploy" that you think of, then this book is not for you. In this book, you will merely find a series of hastily written samples, expounded line-by-line. Worse than that, the samples are not written to be fully cross-browser compliant; in two cases, samples that try features known to work in IE8 fail.

The book is as badly formatted, full of grammatical errors and typos, and leaves far too much "up to the reader" to figure out. The agile development model is not known for producing well-conceived documentation, and this document, which reads like a rough draft, reflects it.

Aditya, next time hire an editor!

Nearly all of the book was dedicated to simple examples of HTML 5 with pictures in different browsers, I was looking for more information about the differences between HTML 5 and HTML 4. There was also no information about CSS3 or if the ECMAScript standards were changing. Sadly my expectations were higher than the book delivered.

It has become apparent that knowledge of the updates to HTML 5 is practically useless without also updated CSS and JavaScript knowledge. I will be waiting for the specifications to finalize before I buy another book on this subject. Also, the next book I buy will cover all three standards in much greater depth.

This book is the biggest waste of money. I suggest you wait until the other HTML 5 books are released and save your money.