Book description
Beginning HTML5 and CSS3 is your introduction to the new features and elements of HTML5—all the leaner, cleaner, and more efficient code you've hoped for is available now with HTML5, along with some new tools that will allow you to create more meaningful and richer content. For everyone involved in web design, this book also introduces the new structural integrity and styling flexibility of CSS 3—which means better-looking pages and smarter content in your website projects.
For all forward-looking web professionals who want to start enjoying and deploying the new HTML5 and CSS3 features right away, this book provides you with an in-depth look at the new capabilities—including audio and video—that are new to web standards. You'll learn about the new HTML5 structural sections, plus HTML5 and CSS3 layouts. You'll also discover why some people think HTML5 is going to be a Flash killer, when you see how to create transitions and animations with these new technologies. So get ahead in your web development through the practical, step-by-step approaches offered to you in Beginning HTML5 and CSS3.
What you'll learn
Cutting-edge web development techniques with HTML5 and CSS3
The new features of HTML5 and how to work with HTML5 and CSS3
The new web standards being implemented by all the major web browsers
How to work with the new HTML5 structural sections
How to create HTML5 and CSS3 layouts
How to create transitions and animations without using Flash
New web typography solutions
A new vision of web development with HTML5 and CSS3
Who this book is for
This book is for web developers and anyone involved in web design who wants to embrace the new web standards and cutting-edge features of HTML5 and CSS3. With a practical, accessible approach, this book is for anyone who wants to push their websites forwards with the latest technologies.
Table of contents
- Titlepage
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Forewords
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: HTML5: Now, Not 2022
- Chapter 2: Your First Plunge into HTML5
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Chapter 3: New Structural Elements
- Workflow practices, evolving?
- A brave new semantic dawn
- Structural building blocks: <div>, <section>, and <article>
- Headings: <header>, <hgroup>, and <h1>–<h6>, plus <footer>
- The HTML5 outlining algorithm
- HTML5-style heading element levels
- Even more structural elements: <nav>, <aside>, <figure> (and <figcaption>)
- Putting it all together
- Accessibility and HTML5
- Summary
- Homework
- Further Reading
- Chapter 4: A Richer Approach to Marking Up Content
- Chapter 5: Rich Media
- Chapter 6: Paving the Way for Web Applications
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Chapter 7: CSS3, Here and Now
- A Refresher on the importance of web standards
- CSS 1, CSS 2.1, CSS3 ...
- Is CSS3 ready?
- The benefits of CSS3
- CSS basics refresher
- CSS shorthand
- The cascade, specificity, and inheritance
- CSS organization and maintenance
- Browser support, vendor prefixes, polyfills, and progressive enhancement
- Feature detection and polyfills
- Summary
- Homework
- Appendix: CSS3 Module Status
- Chapter 8: Keeping Your Markup Slim Using CSS Selectors
- Chapter 9: A Layout for Every Occasion
- Chapter 10: Improving Web Typography
- Chapter 11: Putting CSS3 Properties to Work
- Chapter 12: Transforms, Transitions, and Animation
- Chapter 13: The Future of CSS or, Awesome Stuff That’s Coming
- Index
Product information
- Title: Beginning HTML5 and CSS3: The Web Evolved
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2012
- Publisher(s): Apress
- ISBN: 9781430228745
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