JavaScript and HTML5 Now

Kyle Simpson

Jul 2012 · "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

3.5

3.9K reviews

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Pages

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About this ebook

A decade ago, Ajax took the Web out of childhood, and now HTML5 and JavaScript are moving the Web into full adulthood. This insightful overview provides striking examples of how these technologies have teamed up to give the Web a truly open platform.

Author Kyle Simpson (HTML5 Cookbook) shows you how JavaScript unlocks the power of all of the new functionality in HTML5, giving web applications the capabilities developers have wanted for years. These technologies now provide the raw tools you need in the presentation layer to replace everything you used to do with Flash.

You’ll discover how:

HTML5 builds natively into the web platform things we find most commonly useful, such as audio, video, and drawing
The Canvas element is changing graphic animations, games, audio visualization, charting, and video effects
Geolocation has spawned “geofencing” and augmented reality
Web Workers allows calculations to be performed in the background, rather than compete with the UI
Web Sockets is enabling realtime communication for chat, live tech support, multi-user collaboration, and gaming
Mobile device APIs will give web apps direct access the phone’s camera, vibration, and other capabilities

Ratings and reviews

3.5

3.9K reviews

James Darnall

January 28, 2013

This little book is not about writing code. In a few pages it winds through where the Web is now and why. Kyle takes a realistic look at the past and present and an imaginitive view to the future. A little flourish from your own imagination and Kyle invokes a vision just beyond present barriers as to how HTML5 and Javascript will propel Internet Web services. Well worth the time.

Mark Hickey

March 18, 2014

Thought this was actually going to learn how to use new JS features. Imagine my sick when what u thought was the foreword was the whole stupid "book". Waste of time.

3 people found this review helpful

Dave H

November 3, 2013

Not really a book, just an intro. Shame for not calling it that in the title. I'm fed up with these so called free books that turn out to be nothing more than a taster, they make me avoid other titles from the same pub house.

4 people found this review helpful

About the author

Kyle Simpson is a UI architect from Austin, TX. He is passionate about user experience, specifically optimizing the UI to be as responsive, efficient, secure, and scalable as possible.He considers JavaScript the ultimate language and is constantly tinkering with how to push it further. If something can't be done in JavaScript or web technology, he's bored by it.He has a number of open-source projects, including LABjs, HandlebarJS/BikechainJS, and flXHR, and he also is a core contributor to SWFObject.

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