Pro HTML5 Programming Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on a power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. In this book, developers will learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology—available in the most recent versions of modern browsers—to build web applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness.

• Explains how to create real-time HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers
• Provides practical, real-world examples of HTML5 features in action
• Shows which HTML5 features are supported in current browsers
• Covers all the new HTML5 APIs to get you up to speed quickly with HTML5

HTML 5: What's in it for me? / Delivering content in real time with real results and doing it today! 2 HTML 5 Web Sockets: A new way to think about Web development 3 Coding HTML 5: Using real-time communication building blocks 4 Extending HTML 5 to the next level of full-duplex communication 5 Building a real-time messaging client 6 Building a real-time chat client 7 Using the HTML 5 Geolocation APIs 8 Using the HTML 5 Storage APIs 9 Working with graphics using Canvas and other Media Elements 10 Using Web Workers 11 Packaging and Deploying HTML 5 Applications 12 The Future of HTML 5, Web Sockets, and the Real-Time Web

Peter Lubbers is the director of documentation and training at Kaazing Corporation and the co-founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group. Peter also teaches HTML5 training courses all over the world. Prior to joining Kaazing, Peter worked as an information architect at Oracle, where he wrote many books, including the award-winning Oracle Application Server Portal Configuration Guide. At Oracle, Peter also developed documentation automation solutions, and two of his inventions are patented. A native of the Netherlands, Peter served as a Special Forces commando in the Royal Dutch Green Berets. Peter lives on the edge of the Tahoe National Forest and in his spare time, he loves to run ultra marathons in the Sierra Nevada foothills and around Lake Tahoe (preferably in one go!).