Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

by Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, Frank Salim

Overview

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology—available in the most recent versions of modern browsers—to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.

• Explains how to create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers
• Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action
• Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers
• Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up to speed quickly with HTML5

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430227908
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	09/01/2010
Series:	Expert's Voice in Web Development
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	7.76(w) x 11.28(h) x 0.72(d)

About the Author

Peter Lubbers is the director of documentation and training at Kaazing Corporation and the co-founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group. Peter also teaches HTML5 training courses all over the world. Prior to joining Kaazing, Peter worked as an information architect at Oracle, where he wrote many books, including the award-winning Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide. At Oracle, Peter also developed documentation automation solutions, and two of his inventions are patented. A native of the Netherlands, Peter served as a Special Forces commando in the Royal Dutch Green Berets. Peter lives on the edge of the Tahoe National Forest and in his spare time, he loves to run ultra marathons in the Sierra Nevada foothills and around Lake Tahoe (preferably in one go!).

Table of Contents

• Overview of HTML5
• Using the HTML5 Canvas API
• Working with HTML5 Audio and Video
• Using the HTML5 Geolocation API
• Using the Communication APIs
• Using the HTML5 Web Socket API
• Using the HTML5 Forms API
• Using the HTML5 Web Workers API
• Using the HTML5 Web Storage API
• Creating HTML5 Offline Web Applications
• The Future of HTML5