Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3 Quick Reference: Color Edition - Softcover

Mavrody, Sergey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615433219 ISBN 13: 9780615433219

Publisher: Belisso, 2010

Synopsis

HTML and CSS are the most essential and fundamental web languages, which provide the foundation for the vast majority of web sites and web applications. HTML5 is on track to become the future of the web, offering simple plug-in free Rich Internet Application capabilities, easier development, and enhanced user experience.
 
This book is an essential technical dictionary for professional web designers and developers, conveniently summarizing over 3000 pages of (X)HTML5 and CSS3 specifications and covering the most common and fundamental concepts and specs, including tags, attributes, values, objects, properties, methods, events, and APIs. Topics include: 

• Introduction to HTML5
  
• HTML5 and XTML5 syntax rules
 
• XTML5
 
• Document semantic structure
 
• Complete reference to HTML5 Elements and
 
• Attributes including Web Forms 2.0
 
• Global attributes and events
  
• A complete summary of CSS3 properties
 
• HTML5 APIs, including Canvas, SVG, Video, Audio, Web Workers, Web Sockets, Microdata, Geolocation, Web Storage and more.


The author’s goal was to create a one-stop resource reference source which is comprehensive but still concise, simple, easy-to-read, and structured. This is the world’s first HTML5 reference-style book. This is also the first book with XHTML5 coverage. 

About the Author

Sergey Mavrody has been working with web technologies since the mid-nineties, focusing on UI design and development, creative direction, information architecture, interactive media, and enterprise applications with rich data visualization and advanced UI components. Sergey holds two Master’s degrees. He is also a visual artist, chess master and educator with many years experience teaching as professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Limited book excerpt is available for preview: http://html5.belisso.com/HTML5_preview.pdf

About this title

About the Author

Sergey Mavrody has been working with web technologies since the mid-nineties, focusing on UI design and development, creative direction, information architecture, interactive media, and enterprise applications with rich data visualization and advanced UI components. 

Sergey holds two Master's degrees. He is also a visual artist, chess master and educator with many years experience teaching as professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

From the Back Cover

This is the first edition (1.1) (2009-2010), the world's 1st reference-type (X)HTML5 & CSS3 book. The author's goal was to create a one-stop resource reference source which is comprehensive but still concise, simple, easy-to-read, and structured.

2nd Edition (2012) facts and additions

New: Specification status and W3C link

Content is updated to reflect evolving W3C HTML5 specification

New: 2 markup elements

New: 15 additional original illustrations

New: 12 additional JavaScript API specifications

New: 17 tips

New: 32 additional CSS properties and selectors

Browser compatibility matrix updated to reflect new browsers incl. Android 4.0 and iOS 5

New: browser compatibility info for individual HTML5 elements and CSS3 properties.

New: Special edition for libraries and academic institutions

PDF (Google ebook), Kindle and iPad versions will be available soon

Edition details

• Publisher: Belisso
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0615433219
• ISBN 13: 9780615433219
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 194