Chapter 14
Beyond Static HTML
Key Skills & Concepts
• Understand the Concept and Uses of JavaScript and HTML5 APIs in Web Pages
• Understand the Purpose of the Following New HTML5 Features: Multitasking, Storage, Offline, Geolocation, Canvas
While HTML enables you to create static, or unchanging, web pages, tools like JavaScript extend the capabilities of HTML, enabling you to create dynamic pages, which either change or react to users’ input. The combination of JavaScript and cascading style sheets (CSS) gives us what’s commonly called Dynamic HTML, or DHTML.
Taking it one step further, the W3C has added one key element and several specifications ...
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