HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers

Content: Preface xi  About the Authors xiii  Chapter 1: Overview of the New Web Standard 1  1.1 How It All Started 1  1.2 Time Travel through Historic Events 7  1.3 In Medias Res 9  1.4 Can I Start Using HTML5 Now? 16  Summary 18  Chapter 2: Structure and Semantics for Documents 19  2.1 Header with \"header\" and \"hgroup\" 21  2.2 Content with \"article\" 22  2.3 Footer with \"footer\" and \"nav\" 24  2.4 Sidebar with \"aside\" and \"section\" 25  2.5 The Outline Algorithm 27  2.6 Figures with \"figure\" and \"figcaption\" 28  2.7 Text-Level Semantics-More New Tags 29  Summary 35  Chapter 3: Intelligent Forms 37  3.1 New Input Types 38  3.2 Useful Attributes for Forms 43  3.3 New Elements 47  3.4 Client-Side Form Validation 57  3.5 Example: A Support Form 64  Summary 68  Chapter 4: Video and Audio 69  4.1 A First Example 70  4.2 The \"video\" Element and Its Attributes 71  4.3 Video Codecs 73  4.4 Tools for Video Conversion 76  4.5 Which Format for Which Browser? 82  4.6 Interim Solutions for Older Browsers 83  4.7 Video and Scripting-A Simple Video Player 86  4.8 And What About Audio? 99  Summary 105  Chapter 5: Canvas 107  5.1 A First Example 108  5.2 Rectangles 111  5.3 Colors and Shadows 113  5.4 Gradients 114  5.5 Paths 117  5.6 Text 130  5.7 Embedding Images 135  5.8 Pixel Manipulation 141  5.9 Compositing 149  5.10 Patterns 152  5.11 Transformations 156  5.12 Base64 Encoding with \"canvas.toDataURL()\"163  5.13 \"save()\" and \"restore()\"165  5.14 Animations 166  5.15 Anything Still Missing? 173  Summary 177  Chapter 6: SVG and MathML 179  6.1 MathML 180  6.2 SVG 182  Summary 183  Chapter 7: Geolocation 185  7.1 Introduction to Geolocation 186  7.2 A First Experiment: Geolocation in the Browser 190  7.3 Technical Background of Determining Position 193  7.4 Display of Current Position on OpenStreetMap 194  7.5 Location Tracking with Google Maps 196  7.6 Example: Geonotes 197  7.7 Browser Support 202  Summary 203  Chapter 8: Web Storage and Offline Web Applications 205  8.1 Storage 206  8.2 Offline Web Applications 212  8.3 Browser Support 220  8.4 Example: Click to tick! 220  Summary 230  Chapter 9: WebSockets 231  9.1 The WebSocket Server 233  9.2 Example: A Broadcast Server 234  9.3 Example: Battleships 239  Summary 248  Chapter 10: Web Workers 249  10.1 Introduction to Web Workers 249  10.2 Search for Leap Years 251  10.3 Calculate Altitude Profiles with Canvas 253  Summary 259  Chapter 11: Microdata 261  11.1 The Syntax of Microdata 263  11.2 The Microdata DOM API 269  Summary 271  Chapter 12: Finishing Touches: Some Global Attributes 273  12.1 News for the \"class\" Attribute 274  12.2 Defining Custom Attributes with \"data-*\" 275  12.3 The \"hidden\" Attribute 276  12.4 The \"classList\" Interface 276  12.5 Drag and Drop with the \"draggable\" Attribute 278  12.5.1 Drag and Drop in Combination with the \"FileAPI\" 284  12.6 The Attributes \"contenteditable\" and \"spellcheck\" 288  Summary 290  Afterword 293  Index 295