About the Book
HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990 and most recently standardized as HTML4 in 1997) and as of June 2011 was still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML4, but XHTML1 and DOM2HTML (particularly JavaScript) as well.Following its immediate predecessors HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a response to the observation that the HTML and XHTML in common use on the World Wide Web is a mixture of features introduced by various specifications, along with those introduced by software products such as web browsers, those established by common practice, and the many syntax errors in existing web documents. It is also an attempt to define a single markup language that can be written in either HTML or XHTML syntax. It includes detailed processing models to encourage more interoperable implementations; it extends, improves and rationalises the markup available for documents, and introduces markup and APIs for complex web applications.
This book is your ultimate resource for HTML5. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.
In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about HTML5 right away, covering: HTML5, Adobe Wallaby, HTML5 File API, HTML5 in mobile devices, Talk: Lord of Ultima, Maqetta, Schema.org, Sencha Touch, The cache manifest in HTML5, HTML, Alt attribute, Blink element, Blockquote element, Canonical meta tag, Canvas element, CE-HTML, Character encodings in HTML, Character entity reference, Comparison of HTML5 and Flash, Comparison of layout engines (HTML), Comparison of layout engines (HTML5 Canvas), Comparison of layout engines (HTML5), Comparison of layout engines (non-standard HTML), Comparison of layout engines (XHTML 1.1), Comparison of layout engines (XHTML), Conditional comment, Cross-document messaging, DVB-HTML, Dynamic HTML, Ericom Software, FHTML, File select, Font family (HTML), Form (web), HTML Application, HTML attribute, HTML color names, HTML decimal character rendering, HTML e-mail, HTML element, HTML sanitization, HTML scripting, HTML5 Shiv, HTML5 video, Image map, Scott Isaacs, JHTML, Layer element, Link relation, List of XML and HTML character entity references, Marquee element, Meta element, Meta refresh, MHTML, Microcontent, Microdata (HTML5), Modernizr, Nokogiri (project), Numeric character reference, Polyglot markup, Quirks mode, RDDL, Request Based Distributed Computing, Ruby character, Span and div, Table cell, Tag soup, TeX4ht, Transclusion, Unicode and HTML, Use of Ogg formats in HTML5, Validator, XHTML, XHTML+SMIL, XHTML+RDFa
This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of HTML5. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of HTML5 with the objectivity of experienced professionals.
