Chapter 1. Introducing HTML5 Games

Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, has been shaping the Internet in the last few decades. It defines how content is structured in the Web and the linkage between related pages. HTML has kept evolving from version 2 to HTML 4, and later to XHTML 1.1. Thanks to the web applications and social networking applications, it the era of HTML5 now.

Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) defines how web pages are presented visually. It styles all HTML elements and the styles of their states, such as hover and active.

JavaScript is the logic controller of a web page. It makes the web page dynamic and provides client-side interaction between the page and users. It accesses the HTML through Document Object Model (DOM). It controls ...

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