HTML5: The Missing Manual

The Missing Credits; About the Author; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgements; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; What You Need to Get Started; When Will HTML5 Be Ready?; About the Outline; About the Online Resources; Safari® Books Online; Part 1: Modern Markup; Chapter 1: Introducing HTML5; 1.1 The Story of HTML5; 1.2 Three Key Principles of HTML5; 1.3 Your First Look at HTML5 Markup; 1.4 A Closer Look at HTML5 Syntax; 1.5 HTML5's Element Family; 1.6 Using HTML5 Today; 1.7 How to Find the Browser Requirements for Any HTML5 Feature; Chapter 2: Structuring Pages with Semantic Elements; 2.1 Introducing the Semantic Elements; 2.2 Retrofitting a Traditional HTML Page; 2.3 Browser Compatibility for the Semantic Elements; 2.4 Designing a Site with the Semantic Elements; 2.5 The HTML5 Outlining System; Chapter 3: Writing More Meaningful Markup; 3.1 The Semantic Elements Revisited; 3.2 Other Standards That Boost Semantics; 3.3 A Practical Example: Retrofitting an "About Me" Page; 3.4 How Search Engines Use Metadata; Chapter 4: Building Better Web Forms; 4.1 Understanding Forms; 4.2 Revamping a Traditional HTML Form; 4.3 Validation: Stopping Errors; 4.4 Browser Support for Web Forms and Validation; 4.5 New Types of Input; 4.6 New Elements; 4.7 An HTML Editor in a Web Page; Part 2: Video, Graphics, and Glitz; Chapter 5: Audio and Video; 5.1 The Evolution of Web Video; 5.2 Introducing HTML5 Audio and Video; 5.3 Understanding the HTML5 Media Formats; 5.4 Fallbacks: How to Please Every Browser; 5.5 Controlling Your Player with JavaScript; 5.6 Video Captions; Chapter 6: Fancy Fonts and Effects with CSS3; 6.1 Using CSS3 Today; 6.2 Building Better Boxes; 6.3 Creating Effects with Transitions; 6.4 Web Fonts; Chapter 7: Responsive Web Design with CSS3; 7.1 Responsive Design: The Basics; 7.2 Adapting Your Layout with Media Queries; Chapter 8: Basic Drawing with the Canvas; 8.1 Getting Started with the Canvas; 8.2 Building a Basic Paint Program; 8.3 Browser Compatibility for the Canvas; Chapter 9: Advanced Canvas: Interactivity and Animation; 9.1 Other Things You Can Draw on the Canvas; 9.2 Shadows and Fancy Fills; 9.3 Making Your Shapes Interactive; 9.4 Animating the Canvas; 9.5 A Practical Example: The Maze Game; Part 3: Building Web Apps; Chapter 10: Storing Your Data; 10.1 Web Storage Basics; 10.2 Deeper into Web Storage; 10.3 Reading Files; 10.4 IndexedDB: A Database Engine in a Browser; Chapter 11: Running Offline; 11.1 Caching Files with a Manifest; 11.2 Practical Caching Techniques; Chapter 12: Communicating with the Web Server; 12.1 Sending Messages to the Web Server; 12.2 Server-Sent Events; 12.3 Web Sockets; Chapter 13: Geolocation, Web Workers, and History Management; 13.1 Geolocation; 13.2 Web Workers; 13.3 History Management; Part 4: Appendixes; Essential CSS; Adding Styles to a Web Page; The Anatomy of a Style Sheet; Slightly More Advanced Style Sheets; A Style Sheet Tour; JavaScript: The Brains of Your Page; How a Web Page Uses JavaScript; A Few Language Essentials; Interacting with the Page;