HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications (Visualizing the Web) |  | Author: Matthew David
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 299
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0240813286
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.74
EAN: 9780240813288
ASIN: 0240813286
Publication Date: July 28, 2010
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Product Description
Implement the powerful new multimedia and interactive capabilities offered by HTML5, including style control tools, illustration tools, video, audio, and rich media solutions. Understand how HTML5 is changing the Web development game with this full-color, project-based treatment that shows you-not just tells you-what HTML5 can do for your Web sites. Reinforce your practical understanding of the new standard with demo applications and tutorials, so that execution is one short step away.
The companion website, visualizetheweb.com, is packed full of extra information, online code libraries, and a user forum, offering even more opportunity to learn new skills, practice your coding and interact with other users.
* Learn how to create images with SVG and Canvas
* Optimize your HTML5 Web site's appearance on the latest Web browsers, including Chrome 5, Safari 4, Internet Explorer 9, and FireFox 3.6
* Embed video and audio into your Web page
* Enhance your JavaScript knowledge with jQuery Ajax library
* Control your page layout and design with CSS3, embedded fonts, animation, transformation, 3D, and rounded borders
* Leverage the new HTML5 elements, such as ARTICLE, SECTION, FOOTER, HEADER, and ASIDE
* Extend your Web applications to mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android, and WebOS mobile phones with HTML5 FORMs 2.0
* Implement the Geolocation API in your Web applications
* Apply SQL-like local data storage to your Web solutions
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| Customer Reviews:
 Outstanding Introduction Book for Anyone August 4, 2010
Conrad Fuhrman (Plainfield, IL United States)
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
Plain and simple, this book provides the basics to get started with HTML5 and CSS3 in a proper format. Coming from a 10yr. veteran of HTML4 and XHTML, I found the book to be well suited for beginners and us experts alike. You need books like this to help leverage the very fundamentals that are often overshot by the rest of your community. How many times have you gone back to see proper usage for your tags or attributes? I like good clean books like this to keep me grounded. Personally I own a good collection of books by Matthew David as his writing style is point blank.
to Brooklynite: Maybe you should get more in touch with your fellow developers and designers. Lorem Ipsum is standard practice for templating and concepting. If you didn't grasp that this book isn't a "tutorialfest" for copy and paste code, maybe you should look elsewhere instead of leaving a one star review. There are a few misprints and some code mishaps, but nothing that you couldn't intelligently work around.
Overall, I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a great introduction and place to start with HTML5 and CSS3. Also the updated site for reference and code is [...]
The best HTML5 Book I have seen dill today July 26, 2010
Alexander
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
Everyone that are interestet in HTML5, CSS3, JAVASCRIPT should read this book. It is clear good written, good to understand. Perfect are that the difference between HTML4 and HTML5 shown and so you get e better feeling for HTML5. Also the Support of Matthew David was excellent. He get back to my Question extremly fast. Whats not so good is that on the Website not all the stuff is that should be!
I give 5 Stars, because I "love" the book!Alex
UPDATE!!! NOW THE FILES ARE ONLINE!!! NOW EVERYTHING IS PERFECT, NOTHING MORE TO SAY!!!
online code now found August 2, 2010
Thomas H. Daly (Glastonbury, CT USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
See PS first
The book would have gotten a higher review if I could find the code on-line. On page 100 it says to go to [...] to download the code. I can not find it there, indeed the page says it is "this is a future home page" and links to advertisements.
This is not a reference book but a good overview of some of the features of HTML5 for the intermediate programmer - someone who has used HTML,CSS and Javascript but may not be familiar with code libraries such as YUI.
PS Got new link to code The correct website is given by the author in the comment attached to this posting (the last time I posted a URL it was deleted)
 Disappointing. July 30, 2010
Brooklynite (Bklyn, NY United States)
10 out of 22 found this review helpful
So, this book. Well, I bought it thinking I might get a head start, since the rest of the HTML5 books out there are still not shipping. I should have waited.
I have read probably 50 technical books on subjects ranging from PHP to Actionscript to Design Patterns to iPhone Development. I have never read a book that felt so pushed-to-market in my life. It appears that editors had no place in the process, because typos abound ("loose" instead of "lose" was a big red flag in chapter 1) -- it makes me wonder how many code errors there are. I haven't bothered to work through any of the code samples, because they all use Lorem Ipsum (as though the author doesn't feel the need to actually provide sample content -- he uses the sidebar explanation that "Lorem Ipsum...prevents your customers from reading the text and commenting on typos instead of looking at the overall visual presentation." Well Mr. David, it makes it nearly impossible to actually write any of the code you propose, given that most of us are not fluent in Latin). Which brings me to my next issue: there are no online code libraries, so any work you do will have to be dutifully typed by you. In Latin. :)
Do yourselves a favor: wait until some of the more credible books arrive in stores and give this one a pass.
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