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Pro HTML 5 Programming

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Web development is a rapidly changing area--especially with HTML5. The authors of this book are commendable for their efforts on this cutting-edge topic. I learned a lot on many topics by using this book including:

--New and deprecated HTML elements
--window.JSON
--HTML5 Canvas
--Video containers
--Geolocation API
--WebSocket API
--Web Workers and Web Storage API

This book opens up a lot of new possibilities for web development on the client side. By reading and using the examples offered in the book, it helps me to think different projects can be beneficial by using HTML5. As with any emerging new technology, HTML5 is still changing and evolving. This book is a great starting point.

This book does not have examples on how to build an end to end application using HTML5. Rather, this book focus on some new features of HTML5.

I was looking for a nice succinct and easy/fast read to cover some of the interactive features for rich internet user interface design using HTML5. In particular, in my role as an architect, I'm not really concerned with page layout considerations - but wider architectural concerns such as the background worker thread and socket communication APIs. Thus, for my needs - this book was a very helpful fast read that met my requirements.

Note: This book is not an introduction to HTML5 (or an introduction to HTML). It is not a comprehensive reference bible for all things HTML. The subtitle of the book clearly indicates: "APIs for Richer Internet Application Development". On that score, I believe it delivers.

Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, Ric Smith, and Frank Salim put together and excellent resource for powerful yet practical HTML5 code that can be used NOW. The book refutes the myth that HTML5 will not be usable until 2022 by going on and showing you how to use it today! By leveraging API's that have common browser support the effort is not purely academic. Although the code is targeted for a more advanced audience, an adept user will be able to glean plenty of information from the examples. The book answered many questions I had about the emerging HTML5 standards, and gave me some new techniques to implement. I recommend this book for anyone experienced with HTML who wants to start using HTML5 now.

Pro HTML5 Programming helps in a way that it gets rid of the intimidation surrounding HTML5.
It covers topics such as:

An overview of HTML5
Geolocation API
Canvas API
WebSocket API
Communication API
Web Workers API
Web Storage API
Forms
Offline Web Applications and the future of HTML5

The examples provided in the books are very easy digest.
Overall this book is an excellent introduction to HTML5 and therefore will recommend it
to any experienced professional who want to start playing with HTML 5.

After a few months of reference, this book continues to deliver the goods for my engineering needs. I can code my designs from the drawing board to fruition with clear reference material and simple practical examples included in each chapter.

Coverage includes audio, video, canvas, storage, offline application development, and more. All at the level the title implies, for the professional engineer hoping to level-up in Ui.

Examples are practical application-based ideas that you can put to use immediately. This book is well complimented with a pure reference manual for HTML5 and JS 1.5 so once again, don't commit to this if you're entirely new to engineering Ui with HTML/JS.

I'm impressed with the book, and recommend it for the professional, amateur, but suggest the novice get something more basic as a compliment.

This book is a great overview of HTML5 APIs. However, I must remind you this is a PROGRAMMING book and mainly targetted at Web PROFESSIONALs who want to get updated on the state of current client-side technologies.

The book explains the most available APIs like Canvas, Audio & Video, Cross Document Messagging, Web Sockets and Web Storage and follows a very nice workflow with introduction, browser support, API explanation and code samples.

The only flaw I see is that it could have some kind of DOM and CSS3 review chapter although it does mention them in chapter 1. Maybe Peter, Brian and Frank will read my review and put that in the next edition.

This is a must read and great reference to keep on the desk for any web developer today.

Several of the examples are not valid HTML5. They use attributes or syntax that is no longer valid under HTML5 such as td width. For someone learning HTML5, this can be very confusing. For example, some examples that are "full listings" don't include the <head> or tags. As far as I know, these are still required under HTML5. I would suggest considering other books on the subject before this one.

I ordered Pro HTML 5 Programming because I expected that it would be a orogrammer's guide for HTML which included the new features that are in HTML 5 that are not in earlier versions. It is in no way a programmer's guide for HTML. It doesn't explain the various instructions used in HTML programming but is more of a sales brochure for HTML 5. It doesn't have the most basic functions of HTML web programming and was of no use to me so I returned it. What I need and what I was expecting was an HTML programming guide that explained what the functions of the various HTML web commands do. It is nothing more than a piece of propaganda for HTML 5 which will do a programmer little nor any good in sitting down and writing an HTML website. If Amazon has a basic HTML programmer's uide I would like to hae it, but HTML 5 Programming certainly doesn't include the HTML programming instructions.

Good because it teach what the title write, bad because it didnt use proper example. like the chapter creating HTML5 Offline Web Applications, where it use the html5 geolocation, localstroge, and offline api. it didnt give us the server side code that process the data, and the geolocation url that this book use was [..], god, example.net? pretty funny.