Summary of Contents
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
1. Basics: What is HTML5? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Basics: The Anatomy of HTML5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Basics: Structuring Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
4. Basics: HTML5 Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5. Basics: Multimedia, Audio and Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6. Multimedia: Preparing Your Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7. Multimedia: Using Native HTML5 Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8. Multimedia: Using Native HTML5 Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
9. Multimedia: The source Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
10. Mutimedia: The track Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
11. Multimedia: Scripting Media Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
12. Canvas & SVG: An Introduction to Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
13. Canvas & SVG: Canvas Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
14. Canvas & SVG: Handling Non-supporting Browsers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
15. Canvas & SVG: Canvas Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
16. Canvas & SVG: Canvas Images and Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
17. Canvas & SVG: An Introduction to SVG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
18. Canvas & SVG: Using SVG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
19. Canvas & SVG: SVG Bézier Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
20. Canvas & SVG: SVG Filter Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
21. Canvas & SVG: Canvas or SVG? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
22. Offline Apps: Detecting When the User Is Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
23. Offline Apps: Application Cache . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
24. Offline Apps: Web Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
25. Offline Apps: Storing Data With Client-side Databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
26. APIs: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
27. APIs: Web Workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
28. APIs: The Geolocation API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
29. APIs: Server Sent Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
30. APIs: The WebSocket API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
31. APIs: The Cross-document Messaging API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
JUMP START
HTML5
BY TIFFANY B. BROWN
KERRY BUTTERS
SANDEEP PANDA
Jump Start HTML5
by Tiffany B. Brown, Kerry Butters, and Sandeep Panda
Copyright © 2014 SitePoint Pty. Ltd.
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