HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers [Paperback]

Marco Casario (Author), Peter Elst (Author), Charles Brown (Author), Nathalie Wormser (Author), Cyril Hanquez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 14, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1430233869 | ISBN-13: 978-1430233862 | Edition: 1

HTML5 brings the biggest changes that HTML has seen in years. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics directly on a web page without the need for a plugin. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. HTML5 Solutions provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project.

What you’ll learn

Real-world solutions for everyday HTML development, saving hours of frustration. Problems covered include:

• Sending multi-bitrate videos to different devices
• Creating custom video components
• Programming a custom video controller  
• Designing a canvas with custom gradients
• Capturing and drawing images  
• Storing data offline using the Web SQL Databases
• Dragging data from the desktop into the browser
• Creating HTML5 WebSockets 

Who this book is for

Web developers and designers seeking practical advice on making HTML5 sites work.

Table of Contents

1. HTML5 Page Structures
2. HTML5 Markup
3. Structural and Semantic Elements
4. HTML5 Forms
5. HTML5 Media Elements: Audio and Video
6. HTML5 Drawing APIs
7. HTML5 Canvas
8. HTML5 Communication APIs
9. HTML5 WebSockets
10. HTML5 Geolocation API
11. HTML5 Local Storage
12. HTML5 Accessibility

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About the Author

Marco is one of the most dynamic developers and consultants in the Adobe world. He has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5.) In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog entitled ""hands on Adobe world"" (casario.blogs.com,) which is currently receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day. In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com,) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices MobyMobile (www.mobymobile.com) and YouThru (www.youthru.com) are representative of their recent work. Another example of Marco's achievements is that he is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/) and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, in which he carries out the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.) Marco is currently busy working on the development (in Flex) of a very ambitious project concerning bank counters at European level, and in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realisation of Rich Internet Applications on behalf of buyers of the calibre of Capgemini, Engineering, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd.

Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance IT consultant and Founding Partner of Project Cocoon based in Pondicherry, South India. As a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and has had his work published in leading journals.

Charles Brown is one of the most noted author, consultant, and trainers in the industry today. His books about Dreamweaver and Fireworks have received critical acclaim and used worldwide as teaching tools. In addition to his work in the IT industry, Charles is also a noted concert pianist, organist, and guitarist appearing in major concert centers world-wide. He began his musical studies at age 4 and went on to study with famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz. At age 14 he made his debut with Leonard Bernstein and went on to study at the famed Juilliard School. Eventually he went to Paris to study with the 20th century legend, Igor Stravinsky. While working with Stravinsky, Charles developed a close friendship with one of the most powerful artistic forces of the 20th century: Pablo Picasso. What he learned about creativity from Picasso he uses today in his writings and training work. Charles is a certified Macromedia/Adobe trainer who is in heavy demand worldwide. He frequently speaks at major conferences such as MAX and NAB. You can see his blog at blog.charlesebrown.net and his website can be found at www.charlesebrown.net.

Cyril Hanquez is a consultant focusing on ColdFusion, Rich Internet and Mobile Applications. He has worked in the IT industry for about 15 years, mainly on European Union institutions projects in Belgium. He is an Adobe Community Professional and the co-manager of the local ColdFusion User Group where he speaks frequently. Happily married and a proud father of two, Cyril is blogging at cyrilhanquez.com/blog/.When he is not working, you can find Cyril playing games or wandering around some popular social networks.

Nathalie Wormser is a French freelance web developer, passionate about emerging multimedia technologies and video games. She is the co-founder of Project Cocoon Multimedia, a development and web design company based in Pondicherry, South India.

Product Details

• Paperback: 364 pages
• Publisher: friendsofED; 1 edition (June 14, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430233869
• ISBN-13: 978-1430233862
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.8 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #958,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars A lot of gaps November 3, 2011

By A. Paxton

Format:Paperback

Generally this book has good potential, but there are many gaps. Some significant pieces of HTML5 and related technologies are missing from this book, including: Web Workers, CSS3, mobile APIs (Touch Events, Device Orientation), HTML5+RDFa, XHTML5, Scalable Vector Graphics - the list can go on. There is also nothing about HTML5-specific syntax, e.g. optional tags/quotes, etc. And I would not call this book "Solutions". It it basically a light overview of HTML5.

4.0 out of 5 stars Collection of examples April 9, 2013

By Igor

Format:Paperback

This book is collection of examples about HTML5. The examples are well explained with
full code solution, I liked that part because every example was whole solution not just
code snippet. Some newer features in HTML5 lack more examples thus the four stars.
If you learn by example this is book for you.

4.0 out of 5 stars really well written March 1, 2013

By Evan Baty

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

i wish other programming books were written this way. the code always seems to work (which is not a given with other books). and it is organized really well. my web programming instructor recommended it and im glad he did.
it shows each topic by name, quickly describes in plain english what it does, shows an example of the code snippet, but what really separates it from the rest is that it shows the code in context of the rest web page and how to incorporate it into your program. then finishes it off with noteworthy tips to make it easier and more useful to you.