Using HTML5, web developers can create standards-based browser applications with extraordinary richness and power, incorporating everything from drag-and-drop to native audio and video all without any third-party plug-ins. Simply put, every web developer needs to master HTML5 and the sooner you do so, the greater advantage you’ll have. HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook provides all the expert advice and proven code you need to start building production-quality HTML5 applications right now.
Everyone’s talking about HTML5: now, with browser support increasingly available, web developers need to get ready to use it. HTML5 Developer’s Cookbook gives you all the hands-on code examples and insights you’ll need to start experimenting with HTML5 right now, start converting existing sites to HTML5 and CSS3, and start building apps with the new HTML5 APIs. Chuck Hudson and Tom Leadbetter explain HTML5′s new elements by providing dozens of real-world problems and hands-on code solutions. Organized for instant access to solutions, this book’s wide-ranging coverage includes semantics, browser handling, CSS, animation, Web Forms 2.0, HTML drawing, media, geolocation, client-side storage, Web Sockets, the Web Workers API, file and device APIs, and more. Throughout, you will find best practices, gotchas to avoid, up-to-date browser support notes, links to example sites, accessibility information, and tips for incorporating HTML into existing sites. Download eBook Free »
Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 Mobile Application Development in 24 Hours
Learn how to turn Web pages into stunning mobile applications in just 24 hours or less! HTML5 adds a number of new features and APIs to the language that allow web designers to be more descriptive and effective in creating their Web pages. Using the new APIs you can build offline Web applications, work with location data, store data on a local computer in a manner similar to cookies and more! In this book author Jennifer Kyrnin walks you through how to get started with the HTML5 specification to build great mobile applications.
In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build rich, robust mobile apps that run on smartphones, tablets, and other devices and interact with users in powerful new ways. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll master leading-edge practical skills you can use whether you’re developing for the iPad/iPhone or Android. Discover how to quickly build new mobile apps and upgrade older apps, provide cutting-edge media content, leverage advanced features ranging from geolocation to the semantic web, and even simplify complex back-end development. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success!
Learn how to turn Web pages into stunning mobile applications in just 24 hours or less! HTML5 adds a number of new features and APIs to the language that allow web designers to be more descriptive and effective in creating their Web pages. Using the new APIs you can build offline Web applications, work with location data, store data on a local computer in a manner similar to cookies and more! In this book author Jennifer Kyrnin walks you through how to get started with the HTML5 specification to build great mobile applications. Download eBook Free »
HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games
The book is packed full of JavaScript, HTML5, WebGL, and CSS3 code, showing you how these fantastic games were built and passing on the skills you’ll need to create your own great games. Whether you’re a coding expert looking for secrets to push your games further, or a beginner looking for inspiration and a solid game to build on and experiment with, HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games is for you. Topics and games covered include building complexity from simplicity in A to B, how to create, save, and load game levels in Marble Run, creating fast 3D action games like Cycleblob, entity interpolation from Snowball Fight, trait-based gaming in Grave Danger, the advanced use of WebGL from the game Bar Fight, tips on combining the entangled web of HTML5 technologies brilliantly shown in Far7, the holy grail of making a unique game like Z-Type, and how to build split-screen games as in the addictive Robots Are People Too.
HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games
HTML5 Games Most Wanted: Build the Best HTML5 Games gathers the top HTML5 games developers and reveals the passion they all share for creating and coding great games. You’ll learn programming tips, tricks, and optimization techniques alongside real-world code examples that you can use in your own projects. You won’t just make games you’ll make great games. Download eBook Free »
Pro HTML5 Accessibility helps web designers and developers come to grips with building exciting, accessible and usable websites and applications with HTML5. The book covers how to use HTML5 in order to serve the needs of people with disabilities and older persons using assistive technology (AT). It aims to be a useful ‘go-to’ guide, providing practical advice. It takes several approaches, including a look at the new semantics of HTML5 and how to combine its use with authoring practices you know from using earlier versions of HTML. It also demonstrates how HTML5 content is currently supported (or not) by assistive technologies such as screen readers, and what this means practically for accessibility in your web projects.
Pro HTML5 Accessibility is for the intermediate to advanced web designer and developer who is already building websites and applications but needs some help in understanding accessibility and how it relates to HTML5. The book can be read as a basic introduction to HTML5 and accessibility, but may be more suited to the professional or experienced designer who already has knowledge of HTML4 (or earlier) as well as CSS, WAI-ARIA and JavaScript. While no detailed knowledge of CSS, WAI-ARIA or scripting is really required, it will help the reader to understand some of the design patterns and examples discussed in the book. Download eBook Free »
Making video games is hard work that requires technical skills, a lot of planning, and most critically a commitment to completing the project. With this hands-on guide, you’ll learn step-by-step how to create a real 2D game from start to finish. In the process, you’ll use Impact, the JavaScript game framework that works with HTML5’s Canvas element.
Set up your development environment and discover Impact’s advantages
Build a complete game with core logic, collision detection, and player and monster behavior
Learn why a game design document is critical before you start building
Display and animate game artwork with sprite sheets
Add sound effects, background music, and text
Create screens to display stats and in-game status
Prepare to publish by baking your game files into a single file
Not only will you pick up important tips about game design, you’ll also learn how to publish Impact games to the Web, desktop, and mobile including a method to package your game as a native iOS app. Packed with screen shots and sample code, this book is ideal for game developers of all levels. Download eBook Free »
Recipes for building fast, responsive HTML5 mobile websites for iPhone 5, Android, Windows Phone and Blackberry
Solve your cross platform development issues by implementing device and content adaptation recipes.
Maximum action, minimum theory allowing you to dive straight into HTML5 mobile web development.
Incorporate HTML5-rich media and geo-location into your mobile websites.
HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook
HTML5 Mobile Development Cookbook will show you how to plan, build, debug and optimize mobile websites. Apply the latest HTML5 features that are best for mobile, while discovering emerging mobile web features to integrate in your mobile sites.
How do I create fast and responsive mobile websites that work across a range of platforms? For developers dealing with the proliferation of mobile devices each with unique screen sizes and performance limitations, it is an important question. This cookbook provides the answer. You will learn how to apply the latest HTML5 mobile web features effectively across a range of mobile devices. Download eBook Free »
Over 80 recipes to revolutionize the Web experience with HTML5 Canvas with HTML5 Canvas Cookbook
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
HTML5 Canvas Cookbook
The HTML5 Canvas Cookbook begins by covering the basics of the HTML5 Canvas API and then progresses by providing advanced techniques for handling features not directly supported by the API such as animation 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, animation, physics, color models, and matrix mathematics. Download eBook Free »
Great recipes for practical, real-world HTML5 multimedia driven development
Use HTML5 to enhance JavaScript functionality. Display videos dynamically and create movable ads using JQuery.
Set up the canvas environment, process shapes dynamically and create interactive visualizations.
Enhance accessibility by testing browser support, providing alternative site views and displaying alternate content for non supported browsers.
HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook
HTML5 is the most significant new advancement the web has seen in many years. HTML5 adds many new features including the video, audio, and canvas elements, as well as the integration of SVG. This cookbook is packed full of recipes that will help you harness HTML5’s next generation multimedia features. HTML5 is the future.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a total newbie, this book gives you the recipes that will serve as your practical guide to creating semantically rich websites and apps using HTML5. Get ready to perform a quantum leap harnessing HTML5 to create powerful, real world applications. Download eBook Free »
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