HTML Design Essentials
This guide includes everything you need to start building cutting-edge websites with HTML5. With easy-to-follow tutorials covering innovative techniques on how to use HTML5 today and get to grips with canvas, audio and video, build games, create fallbacks for older browsers, and a showcase of inspiring work, interviews and opinions, this book will help you design the sites of the future.
There are 22 projects inside, and we provide download links to all the files you need to complete them.
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The dev's guide to HTML5
HTML5 promises a wealth of new features for developers. Although some technologies are still in the experimental stages, here Patrick H Lauke offers a broad introduction for the uninitiated -
New exciting web technologies
Bruce Lawson, open web standards evangelist for Opera, looks at some nifty new browser technologies that are not part of HTML5, including WebGL and SVG -
Interview: Brian LeRoux
PhoneGap enables you to write apps for an array of mobile platforms using standard web languages. Its top evangelist, Brian LeRoux, chats to Tom May about the framework's evolution, and how it's sowing the seeds of its own destruction -
The top 20 HTML5 games
HTML5 is quickly turning into a great game development platform. Rob Hawkes highlights some of the best online games built with it (and JavaScript) out there -
Edit user avatars with canvas
Rob Hawkes explains how to create a basic image editor in canvas and manipulate user avatars. No longer must you rely on Flash and server-side technology! -
Make your sites load faster
Your website's visitors care whether or not it loads quickly. Tom Gullen shows you how to make sites render faster, and runs down why you should be doing this
