HTML 5@ebook.laku-abis.com

HTML has always been about interconnection. Back in the ancient days, when elec-tronica was cool and not called “house music” and before the Rolling Stones qualified for Medicare, the web was littered with big huge documents. In fact, it was exactly the opposite of today, where most people think enhanced digital books are just electronic wrappers around full-text copies of what’s in print.
In the ’90s, the web was full of 15-page specifications, all in a single file. You scrolled through those massive documents just like you paged through an encyclopedia. Much of the early versions of HTML were intended to deal with this, widely considered a detriment to the readability and usability of the web. That’s largely because Tim Bern-ers-Lee, the recognized father of HTML, was a researcher enabling other researchers
(mostly at CERN at the time). If you’ve ever known anyone mired in research, brevity is rarely their prevailing trait, so reading huge documents online was a necessity, but scrolling through 15- (or 1,500-) page documents just wasn’t a long-term option. Continue Reading »
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HTML5 and JavaScript Projects @ebook.laku-abis.com

The project for this chapter is a presentation of the official HTML5 logo, with accompanying text. The shield and letters of the logo are drawn on a canvas element and the accompanying text demonstrates the use of semantic tags. The viewer can change the size of the logo using a slider input device. It is an appropriate start to this book, a collection of projects making use of HTML5, JavaScript and other technologies, because of the subject matter and because it serves as a good review of basic event-driven programming and other important features in HTML5.

HTML 5 @ebook.laku-abis.com

HTML5: Everyone’s using it, nobody knows what it is. I realize that sounds more like a line out of an existential movie — maybe Waiting for Godot or a screenplay by Sartre — than a statement about HTML5. But it’s really the truth: most of the people using HTML5 are treating it as HTML4+, or even worse, HTML4 (and some stuff they don’t use). adsense, WU, HF, FS, MU Continue Reading »
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HTML 5 - Up and Running

What is HTML5? HTML5 is the next generation of HTML, superseding HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and XHTML 1.1. HTML5 provides new features that are necessary for modern web applications. It also standardizes many features of the web platform that web developers have been using for years, but that have never been vetted or documented by a standards committee. (Would it surprise you to learn that the Window object
has never been formally documented? In addition to the new features, HTML5 is the first attempt to formally document many of the “de facto” standards that web browsers have supported for years.) Continue Reading »
HTML 5 – Up and Running