Don't be confused by 'The Missing Manual' series of books' title, so that worry about you can't understand this HTML5: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition. In fact, there is no big deal, and your worry is unnecessary. There are a lot of readers as experienced web designers usually introduce this book like this - reading this book needs you to satisfy the following conditions: have written some simple web pages, know a little about CSS and a bit of JavaScript or jQuery.

If go to read the official documentation of HTML5, you will find they often have a lot of repetition, and you don't know what is new, or which knowledge points are more important. While HTML5: The Missing Manual, Second Edition is such a good book enables you to know the HTML5's new technologies in a comprehensible way. The whole book consists of 4 parts (13 chapters for HTML5 and 2 appendixes for CSS & JavaScript), which starts from the basic HTML5 tags to audio, video, canvas, and go down to the CSS3, JavaScript functions supported by HTML5.

Table Of Contents

  • Modern Markup
    • Chapter 1 Introducing HTML5
    • Chapter 2 Structuring Pages with Semantic Elements
    • Chapter 3 Writing More Meaningful Markup
    • Chapter 4 Building Better Web Forms
  • Video, Graphics, and Glitz
    • Chapter 5 Audio and Video
    • Chapter 6 Fancy Fonts and Effects with CSS3
    • Chapter 7 Responsive Web Design with CSS3
    • Chapter 8 Basic Drawing with the Canvas
    • Chapter 9 Advanced Canvas: Interactivity and Animation
  • Building Web Apps
    • Chapter 10 Storing Your Data
    • Chapter 11 Running Offline
    • Chapter 12 Communicating with the Web Server
    • Chapter 13 Geolocation, Web Workers, and History Management
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix Essential CSS
    • Appendix JavaScript: The Brains of Your Page

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