Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

Lubbers, Peter; Salim, Frank; Albers, Brian

ISBN 10: 143023864X / ISBN 13: 9781430238645

Published by Apress, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development (Expert's Voice in Web Development)
• Publisher: Apress
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143023864X
• ISBN 13: 9781430238645
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: very_good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Peter Lubbers is the director of documentation and training at Kaazing Corporation and the co-founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group. Peter also teaches HTML5 training courses all over the world. Prior to joining Kaazing, Peter worked as an information architect at Oracle, where he wrote many books, including the award-winning Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide. At Oracle, Peter also developed documentation automation solutions, and two of his inventions are patented. A native of the Netherlands, Peter served as a Special Forces commando in the Royal Dutch Green Berets. Peter lives on the edge of the Tahoe National Forest and in his spare time, he loves to run ultra marathons in the Sierra Nevada foothills and around Lake Tahoe (preferably in one go!).