Opis: HTML5 Unleashed

HTML5 Unleashed is the authoritative guide that covers the key web components driving the future of the Web. Harness the power of HTML5 to create web apps and solutions that deliver state-of-the-art media content and interactivity with new Audio, Video, and Canvas elements. HTML5 technologies are essential knowledge for today's web developers and designers. New APIs such as Local Storage, Geolocation, Web Workers, and more expand the Web as a platform, allowing for desktop-like applications that work uniformly across platforms. Comprehensive and up-to-date, HTML5 Unleashed is organized as an accessible guide of tutorials and practical references. Because HTML5 covers a far-reaching set of standards, each chapter in HTML5 Unleashed is written to stand on its own. Whether you choose to skip around or read it cover to cover, full-color syntax and figures in HTML5 Unleashed ensure that you do not need to be next to a computer to learn the most important concepts of the modern Web. DETAILED INFORMATION ON HOW TO...* Use new HTML5 features and syntax to create common web page components in a standardized way, with less code* Ensure graceful backward compatibility with "polyfilling" libraries, so users of older browsers are not left behind* Harness the power of semantic HTML5 tags and Microdata to improve your site accessibility and search engine results* Create consistent, rich user experiences across desktop and mobile platforms with the new Audio and Video elements* Create HTML5 Canvas web applications, with chapters dedicated to Canvas interactivity and Canvas performance* Utilize the new functionality of Geolocation to display locality-aware content to users and harness the power of GPS* Use the new Local Storage options to build pages that work offline and robust apps that can store heavyweight data client-side* Allow more sophisticated page communication with Cross-Document Messaging and enable multithreaded JavaScript with Web Workers* Communicate with servers in real-time with WebSockets and take advantage of the new Ajax possibilities with XMLHttpRequest Level 2Introduction 1 Who Should Read This Book? 2 HTML5 and Related Technologies 2 Software Requirements 3 Code Examples 3 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Background 4 Part II: New HTML Elements 4 Part III: Canvas 4 Part IV: HTML5's JavaScript APIs 4 Links and Real-World Examples 5 Chapter 1: Why HTML5? 7 How Did We End Up Here? 7 The Web Takes Off 9 The Rise of the Browser Plug-In 9 Web 2.0 10 HTML5 11 What Exactly Is HTML5? 11 The Importance of HTML5 12 Are Plug-ins Dead? 14 Summary 14 Chapter 2: Important Concepts for HTML5 15 The Goals of HTML5 15 Improving the Native Web 15 More Done with Less Code 16 The Semantic Web 16 Requisites for HTML5 Development 16 Modern Browser Developer Tools 16 HTML5 Fallbacks: Shims, Shivs, and Polyfills 17 Feature Support and Detection 18 Summary 19 Chapter 3: Getting Started with HTML5: Semantic Tags, Forms, and Drag and Drop 21 Ensuring Backward Compatibility with the New HTML Tags 21 The HTML5 Shim 22 HTML5 Boilerplate 23 Starting from the Top 23 The Doctype 23 Meta Character Encoding 24 HTML5 Syntax and Validation 24 How You Should Write Your HTML 27 Housekeeping 29 HTML5 Semantic Elements and Other Presentational Tags 31 HTML5 Semantic Tags 31 Document Outlines in HTML5 33 Minor Semantic and Presentational HTML5 Tags 35 Visual HTML5 Tags: and 37 HTML5 Forms 40 Form Input Types 40 New Form Input Attributes and Elements 47 Drag and Drop in HTML5 53 The Basics 53 Drag Data and Effects 55 Drag Events 58 Summary 67 Chapter 4: Rich Media Tags: Video and Audio 69 The Video Element 71 Video Formats and Support 71 Using the Video Element 75 The Audio Element 77 Audio Formats and Support 77 Using the Audio Element 79 Encoding Your Media 80 Conversion Tools 81 Supporting Older Browsers 81 Video and Audio Attributes 82 Video-Only Attributes 82 Attributes Shared Between Audio and Video 85 JavaScript API 90 The readyState and Starting at a Specified Time 92 The playbackRate and Time Control 93 Loading Videos Sequentially 94 Custom Controls 95 Advantages and Disadvantages of the HTML5 Media Tags Versus Flash 95 Ease of Use and Extensibility 95 Platform Support 96 Feature Support 96 Media Protection 97 Future Developments 97 WebRTC 97 WebVTT and the Tag 98 The Full-Screen API 100 The Web Audio API 100 The Embed Element 101 Summary 101 Chapter 5: 2D Canvas 103 Browser Support 104 Internet Explorer 105 Testing for Support 105 What Canvas Can and Cannot Do 106 A Comparison with SVG 107 Where Canvas Shines 109 When to Not Use Canvas 109 Don't Use Canvas for General UI 111 Getting Started with Canvas 111 An HTML Page with a Canvas 113 Canvas Attributes 115 toDataURL 116 Context Methods and State 117 A Quick Look at the Properties and State Available 117 Understanding Drawing, Starting with Rectangles 118 fillStyle and strokeStyle 119 Paths 120 Understanding the Canvas Coordinate System 122 Line Styles 125 Curves 127 Ellipses 133 isPointInPath 135 Path Filling--The Winding Number Rule 135 Summary of Context State So Far 138 Saving and Restoring 140 Transformation Matrix 141 translate 141 scale 143 Saving and Restoring Affect How Drawing Functions Act on a Transformed Canvas 143 rotate 146 transform and setTransform 150 Keeping Track of Transformations 152 In-Memory Canvases 154 Using Images and Other Canvases 160 Double Buffering 161 Image Data and Pixel Manipulation 162 getImageData 162 createImageData 164 putImageData 164 Image Security on the Canvas 171 CORS 172 But I Want to Test My Image Data Code Locally! 172 Gradients and Patterns 173 Linear Gradients 173 Radial Gradients 175 Gradient Performance and Reuse 177 Patterns 179 Shadows 182 Compositing 184 Compositing Examples 186 Clipping 189 Clearing Nonrectangular Areas 190 Using Text 192 First the Bad Parts 192 Drawing Text 194 Fonts 195 textBaseline 197 textAlign 197 Measuring Text 198 Performance 199 Canvas Context Recap 200 Styling 200 Shadows 200 State 200 Rectangles 200 Paths 201 Image Drawing 202 Transformation 202 Compositing 202 Text 202 Image Data 203 Summary 203 Chapter 6: Making Canvas Interactive and Stateful 205 Canvas Coordinates--Mouse and Touch 205 getBoundingClientRect 206 Computing Element Offset 207 Canvas Animation 210 Letting the Browser Take Control with requestAnimationFrame 210 Animation and Timing 212 Canvas Interactivity Example: Making and Moving Shapes 215 Getting Started 216 The Shapes We Draw 217 Keeping Track of Canvas State. 218 Mouse and Touch Events 219 Getting Input Coordinates 222 Drawing 223 Complete Canvas Interactivity Example 225 Summary 231 Chapter 7: Canvas Performance, Tips, and Peculiarities 233 Canvas Peculiarities and Tips 234 CSS Width and Height 234 Paths or Images Look Blurry 234 The Methods save and restore 236 Clipping Regions Can Only Get Smaller and Cannot Be Reset 237 Security Exceptions, Cross-domain Images, and Image Data 238 Transformations Affect Drawing in Addition to Paths 238 A Performance Primer 239 Tools of the Trade 240 Before We Get to Canvas 245 The DOM and Canvas 248 Caching Context Properties 248 Stop Using save and restore 250 Caching with Images and In-Memory Canvases 251 Images 252 Text 252 Shadows 253 Gradients 254 Paths 255 Multiple Canvases 256 Keeping Track of Objects 257 Hit Testing 257 Size Matters 260 Summary 261 Chapter 8: The Future of Canvas and 3D Canvas 263 The Future of 2D Canvas 263 New in the Specification 264 Hints from the Browsers 270 3D (WebGL) Canvas 271 WebGL Libraries 272 Summary 275 Chapter 9: Geolocation API 277 Understanding Latitude and Longitude 278 Types of Geolocation Data 280 The Old Ways 280 The HTML5 Way--New Methods for Geolocation 281 HTML5 Geolocation API 282 Geolocation Support 283 Using Geolocation 283 The API 283 Geolocation in Action 288 Where Am I? 288 A Trailblazing App 293 Summary 299 Chapter 10: HTML5 Storage Options 301 Older Storage Methods 301 Browser Cookies 301 Flash Cookies 302 userData 302 Along the Way 302 Web Storage--sessionStorage and localStorage 303 sessionStorage 303 localStorage 304 API 304 WebSQL Database 307 IndexedDB 308 Getting Started with IndexedDB 308 Looking Further 322 FileSystem API for Local Read/Write Access 323 FileSystem API Example 324 Offline Pages and the Application Cache 326 Using the Application Cache 327 Important Notes About the Application Cache 330 Summary 331 Chapter 11: Messaging and Web Workers 333 The Web Messaging API and Cross-Document Messaging 333 Sending and Receiving Messages 334 Channel Messaging 336 Security with Web Messages 338 Web Workers 339 Getting Started with Web Workers 340 A Simple Example 342 Shared Web Workers 345 Web Worker Considerations 349 Summary 351 Chapter 12: Network Communication: WebSockets and XMLHttpRequest Level 2 353 Real-Time Communication with WebSockets 354 Before WebSockets 354 Getting Started with WebSockets 355 A Complete WebSockets Example 358 Server-Side WebSockets 359 New AJAX Capabilities with XMLHttpRequest Level 2 359 New Features in XHR2 360 Summary 364 Chapter 13: Microdata, Other Small Things, and Beyond HTML5 365 Microdata 365 Getting Started with Microdata 367 A Microdata Recipe Example 371 New Browser Features Not Covered in This Text 373 Honorable Mention: The File API 373 Other New Browser Features 375 The Future 378 The Future of Web Development 379 Summary 380 Index 381

Szczegóły: HTML5 Unleashed

Tytuł: HTML5 Unleashed
Producent: Sams Publishing
ISBN: 9780672336270
Rok produkcji: 2013
Ilość stron: 432
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.7 kg

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