HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers

HTML5 brings the biggest changes that HTML has seen in years. Web designers and developers now have a whole host of new techniques up their sleeves, from displaying video and audio natively in HTML, to creating realtime graphics directly on a web page without the need for a plugin. But all of these new technologies bring more tags to learn and more avenues for things to go wrong. HTML5 Solutions provides a collection of solutions to all of the most common HTML5 problems. Every solution contains sample code that is production-ready and can be applied to any project.

What you’ll learn

Real-world solutions for everyday HTML development, saving hours of frustration. Problems covered include:

• Sending multi-bitrate videos to different devices
• Creating custom video components
• Programming a custom video controller
• Designing a canvas with custom gradients
• Capturing and drawing images
• Storing data offline using the Web SQL Databases
• Dragging data from the desktop into the browser
• Creating HTML5 WebSockets

Who this book is for

Web developers and designers seeking practical advice on making HTML5 sites work.

About the Authors

Marco Casario has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in BASIC for the Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the Web using HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Director.

In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia. Since that year, he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences, and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog (casario.blogs.com).

In 2005, Marco has founded Comtaste (comtaste.com), a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet and Mobile Applications and the convergence between the Web and the world of mobile devices. Now his focus is on User Experience (UX) aspects in order to provide users with a valuable experience. He also is a proponent of cloud computing with Google Apps APIs and the Google App Engine.

Marco is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite UG and of augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users in which he serves in the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (augitaly.com/flexgala.). Recently, he became Community Manager for the Google Technology User Group (gtug.it) in Milan.

Marco is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex 4, LCDS 3, and AIR (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert for the Livecycle Platform, Flash, and Dreamweaver. He is also a SCRUM Master.

Marco is author of several books including HTML5 Solutions (Apress); Flex 4 Cookbook (O'reilly); Professional Flash Catalyst (Wrox); AIR Cookbook (O'reilly); and Flex 4 Solutions (FriendsOfED), Advanced AIR Applications (FriendsOfED), The Essential Guide to AIR with Flash CS4 (FriendsOfED), and Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 3 developers (FriendsOfED).

Some of his speaking engagements include international conferences such as FlashOnTheBeach, AJAXWorld Conference, O'reilly Web 2.0 Summit, FITC, Adobe MAX, FATC New York, FlexCamp, 360Flex, TAC Singapore, MultiMania Belgium, Adobe CEM, and many others.

Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance IT consultant and Founding Partner of Project Cocoon based in Pondicherry, South India. As a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and has had his work published in leading journals.

Charles Brown is one of the most noted authors, consultants, and trainers in the IT industry today. His books on Flex have received strong critical acclaim and are used worldwide as a teaching tool.

Charles is a certified Adobe trainer who is in heavy demand worldwide. He frequently speaks at major conferences such as MAX and NAB. His website can be found at charlesebrown.net. You can find Charles on Facebook.

Nathalie Wormser is a freelance web developer who is passionate about emerging multimedia technologies and games. She is the co-founder of Project Cocoon Multimedia, a development and web design company based in Pondicherry, South India.

Cyril Hanquez is a consultant focusing on ColdFusion, Rich Internet and Mobile Applications. He has worked in the IT industry for about 15 years, mainly on European Union institutions projects in Belgium. He is the co-manager of the local ColdFusion User Group where he speaks frequently. Cyril is blogging at cyrilhanquez.com/blog/. When he is not working, you can find Cyril playing games or wandering around some popular social networks as "Fitzchev.".”….