Get Started With HTML5

by Matthew Hughes, Justin Pot (Editor), Angela Randall (Editor)

HTML5 is used to describe a really diverse group of things. It's a standard of writing web pages. It's a collection of APIs. It's a new way of adding interactivity to web pages. HTML5 is all that and more.

The aim of this guide is to provide a gentle introduction to these amazing new web technologies, and to show you some cool ways of incorporating them into your websites.

MakeUseOf staff writer Matthew Hughes will take you through everything you need to know in order to get started with HTML5. You'll learn about:
- Semantic Markup
- Forms in HTML5
- Adding Media in HTML5
- Using CSS3 for Transformations and Animations
- Basic Javascript
- Using Creative Canvas

40 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 11, 2013

Reviews

[Vernon]

As a complete newb to JavaScript I appreciated chapter 6 with its light introduction to the basic constructs of the language. Further reading references are also appreciated. Nice and brief too.