HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications

by Matthew David

Implement the powerful new multimedia and interactive capabilities offered by HTML5, including style control tools, illustration tools, video, audio, and rich media solutions. Understand how HTML5 is changing the Web development game with this full-color, project-based treatment that shows you-not just tells you-what HTML5 can do for your Web sites. Reinforce your practical understanding of the new standard with demo applications and tutorials, so that execution is one short step away.
The companion website, visualizetheweb.com , is packed full of extra information, online code libraries, and a user forum, offering even more opportunity to learn new skills, practice your coding and interact with other users.

Genres: Programming, Web, Nonfiction

299 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 2010

Reviews

[Robert Hernandez · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a nice glimpse to the past seeing how HTML5 was being preserved and as a consolidation of methodologies for CSS, Javascript, Audio and Video formats across Firefox, IE, Chrome, & Opera. Although some topics were a bit of a chuckle like mentions of Flash and IE's difficulties to support now, I can see the pain points back then and how the promise of HTML5 would help attempt compatibility issues. I find that the projects as they go further into the book were a good idea to have in computer science books; however, it was a bit tangent when they added large bits of code and kinda be like...Look this is how you do this..done! I think the idea was to drive the concepts home but it went too granular to make the page work that they kinda lost focus of what was happening at the time. This can be seen especially in the Javascript part 5 part that kindna was building a Javascript Jquery extension as an example, which seem too much to show the power of JS. Overall, I was curious to learn about HTML5, and feel like I'll read a book that talks about HTML in 2018, but it was a good starting point, and it was available free at work to read so why not?

[Alessandro Pellizzari · Rating 2 out of 5]

Stavo per abbandonarlo a metà. Scritto male. Le prime cento pagine sembrano il tema di un ragazzo delle medie che non sa cosa scrivere e ripete le stesse cose e allunga il brodo. Vuole raccontare troppo in poco spazio. Meno di 200 pagine non bastano per trattare HTML5 (compresi Canvas e SVG), CSS3, Javascript, e addentrarsi anche in jQuery e altri framework js, con anche la pretesa di scrivere 4-5 esempi funzionanti di web applications. L'impaginazione è pessima. Per, credo, esigenze stilistiche, le colonne di testo hanno dei margini enormi, ma la cosa peggiore è che le parti di codice hanno un ulteriore margine (di circa 1 cm per lato) che li ha costretti a rimuovere tutte le indentazioni dal codice. E nonostante tutto anche righe abbastanza corte vanno a capo, rendendolo completamente illeggibile. Inoltre suggerisce tecniche di codifica pessime (nomi visuali invece che semantici per le classi, per esempio) e dà informazioni errate ("monospace" non è il "Linux/Unix equivalent of Courier". E` il fall-back nel caso non si trovi il Courier...) Due stelle invece di una solo per un paio di chicche che non ho trovato in altri posti, come la possibilità di specificare caratteristiche del device nell'attributo media dei css, o i rem come unità di misura. Decisamente sconsigliato.