Concise Guide to HTML5

The Concise Guide to HTML5 gets you started right away working with the new features of HTML5 and CSS3. Gone are the days of adding additional markup just to style a button differently or stripe tables. You'll learn to use HTML5's new markup to create better structure for your content and better interfaces for your forms, resulting in cleaner, easier-to-read code that can be understood by both humans and programs.

You'll find out how to embed audio, video, and vector graphics into your pages without using Flash. You'll see how web sockets, client-side storage, offline caching, and cross-document messaging can ease the pain of modern web development. And you'll discover how simple CSS3 makes it to style sections of your page.

Throughout the book, you'll also learn how to compensate for situations where your users can't take advantage of HTML5 and CSS3 yet, developing solutions that are backwards compatible and accessible.

Topics covered include:

* Migrating from HTML 4 to HTML5
* How to improve your web interfaces with new HTML5 tags and capabilities
* How to organize different sections of your web pages with HTML5
* Create advanced web forms
* Use CSS3 with HTML5
* Use the new tag for rich graphical effects
* Take advantage of the new and media elements
* Store data on the client side
* Explore the new HTML5 API's including the Database API and Geolocation
* Much more.