HTML books

Part of the highly successful Shelly Cashman series, this text provides a comprehensive introduction to HTML and leads the user through a clear, step-by-step, screen-by-screen approach to learning. Readers learn how to create a Web page using HTML, format the page, add graphics, and more.

With scores of practical recipes you can use in your projects right away, this cookbook helps you gain hands-on experience with HTML5’s versatile collection of elements. You get clear solutions for handling issues with everything from markup semantics, web forms, and audio and video elements to related technologies such as geolocation and rich JavaScript APIs.

Each informative recipe includes sample code and a detailed discussion on why and how the solution works. Perfect for intermediate to advanced web and mobile web developers, this handy book lets you choose the HTML5 features that work for you—and helps you experiment with the rest.

• Test browsers for HTML5 support, and use techniques for applying unsupported features
• Discover how HTML5 makes web form implementation much simpler
• Overcome challenges for implementing native audio and video elements
• Learn techniques for using HTML5 with ARIA accessibility guidelines
• Explore examples that cover using geolocation data in your applications
• Draw images, use transparencies, add gradients and patterns, and more with Canvas
• Bring HTML5 features to life with a variety of advanced JavaScript APIs

"...lucid, in-depth descriptions of the behavior of every HTML tag on every major browser and platform, plus enough dry humor to make the book a pleasure to read."
--Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine

"When they say 'definitive' they're not kidding."
--Linda Roeder, About.com

Put everthing you need to know about HTML & XHTML at your fingertips. For nearly a decade, hundreds of thousands of web developers have turned to HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide to master standards-based web development. Truly a definitive guide, the book combines a unique balance of tutorial material with a comprehensive reference that even the most experienced web professionals keep close at hand. From basic syntax and semantics to guidelines aimed at helping you develop your own distinctive style, this classic is all you need to become fluent in the language of web design.

The new sixth edition guides you through every element of HTML and XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. You'll also find detailed discussions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which is intricately related to web page development. The most all-inclusive, up-to-date book on these languages available, this edition covers HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and CSS2, with a preview of the upcoming XHTML2 and CSS3. Other topics include the newer initiatives in XHTML (XForms, XFrames, and modularization) and the essentials of XML for advanced readers. You'll learn how to:

• Use style sheets to control your document's appearance
• Work with programmatically generated HTML
• Create tables, both simple and complex
• Use frames to coordinate sets of documents
• Design and build interactive forms and dynamic documents
• Insert images, sound files, video, Java applets, and JavaScript programs
• Create documents that look good on a variety of browsers

The authors apply a natural learning approach that uses straightforward language and plenty of examples. Throughout the book, they offer suggestions for style and composition to help you decide how to best use HTML and XHTML to accomplish a variety of tasks. You'll learn what works and what doesn't, and what makes sense to those who view your web pages and what might be confusing. Written for anyone who wants to learn the language of the Web--from casual users to the full-time design professionals--this is the single most important book on HTML and XHTML you can own.

Bill Kennedy is chief technical officer of MobileRobots, Inc. When not hacking new HTML pages or writing about them, "Dr. Bill" (Ph.D. in biophysics from Loyola University of Chicago) is out promoting the company's line of mobile, autonomous robots that can be used for artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic research, and education.

Chuck Musciano began his career as a compiler writer and crafter of tools at Harris Corporations' Advanced Technology Group and is now a manager of Unix Systems in Harris' Corporate Data Center.

HTML5 and CSS3 are the future of web development, but you don't have to wait to start using them. Even though the specification is still in development, many modern browsers and mobile devices already support HTML5 and CSS3. This book gets you up to speed on the new HTML5 elements and CSS3 features you can use right now, and backwards compatible solutions ensure that you don't leave users of older browsers behind.
This book gets you started working with many useful new features of HTML5 and CSS3 right away. 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 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.
You'll find what you need quickly with this book's modular structure, and get hands-on with a tutorial project for each new HTML5 and CSS3 feature covered. "Falling Back" sections show you how to create solutions for older browsers, and "The Future" sections at the end of each chapter get you excited about the possibilities when HTML5 and CSS3 reach widespread adoption. Get ready for the future---in fact, it's here already.

Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript covers everything that you need to know to create dynamic scripted animation using the HTML5 canvas. It provides information on all the relevant math you'll need, before moving on to physics concepts like acceleration, velocity, easing, springs, collision detection, conservation of momentum, 3D, and forward and inverse kinematics. Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript is a fantastic resource for all web developers working in HTML5 or switching over from Flash to create standards-compliant games, applications, and animations that will work across all modern browsers and most mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.
You will learn how to utilize the amazing animation and physics-based code originally created by author Keith Peters in his hugely successful Foundation ActionScript Animation in all of your HTML5 applications. In no time at all, you'll understand the concepts behind scripted animation and also have the ability to create all manner of exciting animations and games.

• All the JavaScript and HTML5 code (including math and trigonometry functions) you'll need to start animating with code
• Basic motion principles like velocity, acceleration, friction, easing, and bouncing
• How to handle user interactions via the keyboard, mouse, and touchscreen
• Advanced motion techniques like springs, coordinate rotation, conservation of momentum, and forward and inverse kinematics
• All the basic 3D concepts you'll need for 3D in HTML5 (without WebGL)—from simple perspective to full 3D solids, complete with backface culling and dynamic lighting

This book is a fantastic resource for all web developers working in HTML5 or switching over from Flash to create standards-compliant games, applications, and animations that will work across all modern browsers and most mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads, and Android devices.

1. Basic Animation Concepts
2. Basics of JavaScript for Animation
3. HTML5 and Canvas graphics
4. Trigonometry for Animation
5. Velocity and Acceleration
6. Boundaries and Friction
7. User Interaction: Moving Objects Around
8. Easing and Springing
9. Collision Detection
10. Coordination Rotation and Bouncing Off Angles
11. Billiard Ball Physics
12. Particle Attraction and Gravity
13. Forward Kinematics: Making Things Walk
14. Inverse Kinematics: Dragging and Reaching
15. 3D Basics
16. 3D Lines and Fills
17. Backface Culling and 3D Lighting
18. Matrix Math
19. Tips and Tricks

The biggest revolution since Ajax, Pro HTML 5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development introduces the most revolutionary new feature of HTML 5, the ability to build Real-Time Web applications using Web Sockets.
For the first time, developers can build Rich Internet Applications with Web standards and without Ajax, Comet, Flash, Silverlight, or any of the difficult-to-use non-standard and proprietary standards currently in use. Every professional Web developer will want to learn about Web Sockets and will soon be creating more dynamic, responsive, and reliable Rich Internet Applications, and this is the only book that will show them how

Over 80 recipes to revolutionize the Web experience with HTML5 Canvas

• The quickest way to get up to speed with HTML5 Canvas application and game development
• Create stunning 3D visualizations and games without Flash
• Written in a modern, unobtrusive, and objected oriented JavaScript style so that the code can be reused in your own applications.
• Part of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

In Detail

The HTML5 canvas is revolutionizing graphics and visualizations on the Web. Powered by JavaScript, the HTML5 Canvas API enables web developers to create visualizations and animations right in the browser for the first time without Flash. HTML5 Canvas is being considered as the future of graphics and interactivity on the Web and yet most developers fail to exercise all of the features that this powerful technology has to offer.

HTML5 Canvas Cookbook covers the fundamental methods and properties of the HTML5 canvas API. As soon as you are familiar with the API, the book provides advanced techniques for handling animations, image and video manipulations, canvas interactivity, data visualizations, game development, 3D modeling, and more.

HTML5 Canvas Cookbook begins by covering the basics of the HTML5 Canvas API and then provides techniques for handling features not directly supported by the API such as animations and canvas interactivity. It winds up by providing detailed templates for a few of the most common HTML5 canvas applications - data visualization, game development, and 3D modeling. It will acquaint you with interesting topics such as fractals, principles of animation, physics, color models, matrix mathematics, and 3D projection.

By the end of this book, you will have a solid understanding of the HTML5 canvas API and a toolbox of techniques for creating any type of HTML5 Canvas application, limited only by the extent of your imagination.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn about the fundamentals of line drawing, text drawing, shape drawing, composites, and picture drawing.
• Animate linear motions, accelerations, and oscillations, and create a particle physics simulator.
• Work with images, video, and pixel manipulation.
• Apply transformation effects including translations, scaling, rotations, and shearing.
• Create interactive HTML5 canvas applications using mouse coordinate detection, pixel detection, rectangular region detection, and path detection techniques.
• Construct data visualizations with graphs and charts.
• Develop your own HTML5 canvas games.
• Create stunning 3D visualizations with JavaScript libraries and WebGL.

Approach

Written in cookbook style, this book offers a wide array of techniques for building HTML5 Canvas applications. Each recipe contains step-by-step instructions followed by analysis of what was done in each task and other useful information. The book is designed so that you can read it chapter by chapter, or you can look at the list of recipes and refer to them in no particular order.

Who this book is written for

This book is geared towards web developers who are familiar with HTML and JavaScript. It is written for both beginners and seasoned HTML5 developers with a good working knowledge of JavaScript.

NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CREATING WEB PAGES WITH HTML, XHTML, AND XML teaches students how to create simple to complex Web sites from scratch using HTML, XHTML, and XML.

Comprehensive written and interactive instruction for learning HTML5

HTML is the core technology for building websites. Today, with HTML5 opening the Internet to new levels of rich content and dynamic interactivity, developers are looking for information to learn and utilize HTML5. HTML5 24-Hour Trainer provides that information, giving new and aspiring web developers the knowledge they need to achieve early success when building websites.

• Covers the most basic aspects of a web page, including a brief introduction to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• Provides lessons that are backed up by professionally created training videos and interactive content to fully illustrate the dynamic nature of HTML5 and the Internet, while also providing a full learning experience
• Combines easy-to-follow lessons with expertly crafted training videos to provide you with both written and interactive instruction for learning HTML5

Written by bestselling author Joseph Lowery and with video content created by well-known multimedia and eLearning producer Mark Fletcher, HTML5 24-Hour Trainer brings the new features of HTML5 and the Internet to life unlike any other resource.

Note: As part of the print version of this title, video lessons are included on DVD. For e-book versions, video lessons can be accessed at wrox.com using a link provided in the interior of the e-book.

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications have acquired power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. With this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology—available in the most recent versions of modern browsers—to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.
This new edition includes major revisions for WebSockets functionality, reflecting the new W3C specification. It also features new chapters covering the drag-and-drop API as well as SVG.

• Explains how to create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers
• Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action
• Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up-to-speed quickly with HTML5
• Fully updated to include the latest revisions of the WebSocket API, and much more.

• How the HTML5 specification has evolved
• How to develop cutting-edge web applications using new HTML5 features like WebSockets, geolocation, web storage, Canvas, and audio/video
• Which features are available in modern browsers

• Web designers and developers who want to use the latest cutting-edge technology available in current browsers
• Developers who want to create dynamic, HTML5 web applications
• Developers who want to know which HTML5 features are supported by modern browsers

1. Overview of HTML5
2. Using the Canvas API
3. Working With Scalable Vector Graphics
4. Working with Audio and Video
5. Using the Geolocation API
6. Using the Communication APIs
7. Using the WebSocket API
8. Using the Forms API
9. Working with Drag-and-Drop
10. Using the Web Workers API
11. Using the Storage APIs
12. Creating Offline Web Applications
13. The Future of HTML5