HTML5 Guidelines for Web Developers

This book offers detailed insight from authors Klaus Förster and Bernd Öggl into the many new features of the HTML5 as well as the classic elements of the specification -- including video, audio, Canvas, intelligent forms, offline applications, and micro data, as well as geolocation, Web Storage, Web Sockets, and Web Workers. Whether you are constructing a weblog, programming your own video and audio player, using the browser as a graphics program, wanting to optimize the power of your browser, or searching for tips and tricks for working with JavaScript and the DOM,  this book will help you accomplish your goals.

The chapters do not necessarily build on each other and are designed be understandable even if you have not read previous chapters.
Readers with a basic knowledge of HTML, JavaScript and CSS will get the most out of this book and will understand how to put the new HTML5 spec to work!