Chapter 14Advanced Topics: Taking It All a Little Further

This book has covered quite a bit, from basic HTML5 elements through how to animate and interact with those elements, to even determining your location. This last chapter covers a few topics to put a bit of icing on the cake.

This chapter features three distinct sections. First is a treatise on JavaScript. JavaScript has been shown throughout the book, but here it is covered generally as a subject of its own, and not about interaction with HTML5 elements.

Next is a section on math (no, it’s not boring and there is no test!). In particular, geometry and a bit of (shudder) trigonometry are reviewed. Why cover math in a book like this? Because shapes and animation are often based on a handful ...

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