HTML5 Solutions Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers

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

• HTML5 Page Structures
• HTML5 Markup
• Structural and Semantic Elements
• HTML5 Forms
• HTML5 Media Elements: Audio and Video
• HTML5 Drawing APIs
• HTML5 Canvas
• HTML5 Communication APIs
• HTML5 WebSockets
• HTML5 Geolocation API
• HTML5 Local Storage
• HTML5 Accessibility

HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers