HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers [Kindle Edition]

Klaus Förster (Author), Bernd Öggl (Author)

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This is the eBook version of the printed book.

In HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers, two pioneering web developers provide a comprehensive guide to HTML5’s powerful new elements and techniques through compact, practical, easy-to-understand examples. You’ll discover just how much you can do with HTML5—from programming audio/video playback to integrating geographical data into pages and applications.

 

This concise, friendly reference is packed with tips, tricks, and samples for making the most of HTML5 with JavaScript and the DOM. The authors present “pure HTML5” examples that are supported by browsers right now, and they share realistic insights into the challenges of leading-edge HTML5 development. All examples are available for download, with links to web resources for new information and specification updates. Topics covered include 

• Browser support: What you can (and can’t) do with HTML5 today
• HTML5 document structure and semantics
• Intelligent forms, including new input types, elements, and client-side validation
• The “video” and “audio” elements, and scripting media solutions
• Advanced graphics with Canvas and SVG
• Geolocation in the browser, including location tracking  via Google Maps
• Web storage, offline web applications, WebSockets,and Web Workers
• Embedding sematic markup with Microdata and the Microdata DOM API
• Implementing drag-and-drop with the “draggable” attribute
• New global attributes: “data-*,” “hidden,” “contenteditable,” “spellcheck,” and more

If you’re a web developer or designer with at least basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, this book is all you need to masterHTML5—and get to the cutting edge of web development.

About the Author

Klaus Förster, an open source enthusiast, works at the Department of Geography of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has attended numerous SVG Open conferences as speaker, reviewer, and workshop leader, and contributed SVG modules to the free software projects PostGIS, GRASS GIS, and SpatiaLite.

 

Bernd Öggl, lecturer and system administrator at the University of Innsbruck, is the coauthor of a book on PHP and MySQL and has many years of experience programming web applications.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 4267 KB
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (June 23, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0058NWQGA
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #464,147 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Book, October 9, 2011

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ClearCSSJimmy - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers (Paperback)

As an experienced web developer who was self taught on HTML 4, I had unfounded reservation about HTML5 in general. Maybe it was the fact that the standard was changing and that I had to learn something new from scratch. Thankfully this was not the case.

After reading HTML5 > Guidelines for Web Developers by Forster and Oggl, I was confident in my ability to design evolving HTML 5 compliant sites.

The writing style is concise and easy to read. The topics covered, are not necessarily meant to be followed in order. One can skip and read about a certain subject.

The first chapter is brief and in my opinion doesn't really add value to book. The book really starts at Chapter 2, "Structure and Semantics for Documents." One of the biggest change is that HTML5 is the fact that one no longer has to create div sections with classes name footer, header, etc. Now one can use <header> and <footer> to name a few.

Another great chapter is Chapter 3, "Intelligent Forms." The authors do a good example on how to use the different elements as well as handling validation. New data types are introduced such as url, email, datetime, color, etc. Attributes are introduced as well. Some of the code is minimal but it does help the web developer understand them.

On Chapter 5, "Canvas," the authors spend some time going over what they call, "One of the most interesting and at the same time one of the oldest new HTML5 elements," Canvas. It is presented in a neat and concise manner. Again there is minimal code but it does what it is suppose to do, get the web developer up to speed.

Overall, HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers is a decent book. By no means is this book the must have all in one book, but it is a great book on getting to know most features of HTML5. I definitely recommend it.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A thorough HTML5 introduction for developers, October 6, 2011

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I. Devlin "Ian Devlin" (Meerbusch-Büderich, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers (Paperback)

This is a decent introduction to HTML5 for any web developer as the title states, it is definitely not aimed for anyone who is not technical in any way. As mentioned by another reviewer, the inclusion of the examples showing you how everything talked about can actually be used, is a great help.

I've written a lengthy review at: [...]

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good but no full reference, September 18, 2011

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Rob Spoor (Den Bosch, Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers (Paperback)

After an uninteresting itroduction (do we really care about all the meetings that lead to HTML5?), the book finally starts with why I got it - all the new features! Starting with semantics, the new form input elements and audio/video, the book contains a very lengthy chapter on the new canvas; 71 of the 290 pages are dedicated to this subject. This is caused by all the images, code snippets and, well, many features of the canvas. It's quite an impressive and overwhelming chapter.

After that lengthy chapter you get the complete opposite in the SVG and MathML chapter. There are just 5 pages, and they don't really cover much, stating that these topics require books of their own. This chapter could and should have been omitted.

Next are some more interesting chapters about geolocation, web / offline storage, web sockets, web workers and microdata, to end with a catch-all chapter with all the remaining stuff the authors wanted to mention. Although there are nice features in it, but the chapter feels incoherent.

All in all it's a good book that describes quite a bit of new features. Just don't expect a full reference of what HTML5 does and does not have. Also, be prepared to read a lot of JavaScript. If you don't know it, several chapters are going to be hard to understand.

Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for writing this review on behalf of JavaRanch. This review has previously been posted on JavaRanch.com.