HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow's Standards Today

HTML5 and CSS3 arethe future of web development, but you don’t have to wait to start using them.Even though the specification is still in development, many modern browsers andmobile devices already support HTML5 and CSS3. This book gets you up to speed on the new HTML5elementsand CSS3 features you can use right now, and backwards compatiblesolutions ensure that you don’t leave users of older browsers behind.

This book gets you started working with many useful new features of HTML5 and CSS3 right away. Gone are the days of adding additional markupjust to style a button differently or stripe tables. You’ll learn to use HTML5’s newmarkup to create better structure for your content and better interfaces foryour forms, resulting in cleaner, easier-to-read code that can be understood byboth humans and programs.

You’llfind out how to embed audio, video, and vector graphics into your pages withoutusing Flash. You’ll see how web sockets, client-side storage, offline caching,and cross-document messaging can ease the pain of modern web development. Andyou’ll discover how simple CSS3 makes it to style sections of your page. Throughout thebook, you’ll learn how to compensate for situations where your users can’t takeadvantage of HTML5 and CSS3 yet, developing solutions that are backwards compatibleand accessible.

You’llfind what you need quickly with this book’s modular structure, and get hands-onwith a tutorial project for each new HTML5 and CSS3 feature covered. “Falling Back” sections show you how tocreate solutions for older browsers, and “The Future” sections at the end ofeach chapter get you excited about the possibilities when HTML5 and CSS3 reach widespread adoption. Get ready for the future—-it’shere already.

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