With HTML5 and improved web browser support, javascript has become the tool of choice for creating high-performance web graphics. This faced-paced book shows you how to use javascript, jQuery, DHTML, and HTML5s Canvas element to create rich web applications for computers and mobile devices.
By following real-world examples, experienced web developers learn fun and useful approaches to arcade games, DHTML effects, business dashboards, and other applications. This book serves complex subjects in easily digestible pieces, and each topic acts as a foundation for the next.

HTML5: Managing Browser History describes how to use the HTML5 Session History application programming interface to present bookmark-friendly URLs while updating parts of a page and preventing unnecessary network activity. Author Bill Weinman shows how to manipulate history by adding entries to the stack, visibly changing the URL in the address bar, and removing entries when the user presses the back or forward buttons, all without reloading the web page. The course uses practical examples that can be applied to most web sites, and also shows how to detect support for the History API in browsers and how to handle exceptions. Exercise files are included with the course.

Several client-side storage options are available to web applications, but one area thats been lacking until now is file I/O—the ability to organize binary data into a true hierarchy of folders. That has changed with the advent of HTML5. With this book, youll learn how to provide your applications with a file system that enables them to create, read, and write files and folders in a sandboxed section of the users local filesystem.
Author Eric Bidelman, a Senior Developer Programs Engineer on the Google Chrome team, provides several techniques and complete code examples for working with the HTML5 Filesystem API.

Use techniques of tomorrow
Dreamweaver CS5.5 provides features and tools to create modern websites with the help of HTML5 and CSS3 using jQuery and make a memorable experience. In this video tutorial, Anselm Hannemann shows how to use HTML5 and CSS3 is already useful. Learn how to use CSS3 effects like drop shadows, rounded corners and transparency so that you can view it with older Web browsers, the pages go without the information and the basic layout is lost. Put a CSS media queries to serve the resolutions of the various output media, including using the real-time preview in Dreamweaver CS5.5 for review.

Use techniques of tomorrow
Dreamweaver CS5.5 provides features and tools to create modern websites with the help of HTML5 and CSS3 using jQuery and make a memorable experience. In this video tutorial, Anselm Hannemann shows how to use HTML5 and CSS3 is already useful. Learn how to use CSS3 effects like drop shadows, rounded corners and transparency so that you can view it with older Web browsers, the pages go without the information and the basic layout is lost. Put a CSS media queries to serve the resolutions of the various output media, including using the real-time preview in Dreamweaver CS5.5 for review.

Create 6 fun games using the latest HTML5, Canvas, CSS, and javascript techniques.
Learn HTML5 game development by building six fun example projects
Full, clear explanations of all the essential techniques
Covers puzzle games, action games, multiplayer, and Box 2D physics
Use the Canvas with multiple layers and sprite sheets for rich graphical games
Harness CSS3 special effects to create polished, engaging puzzle gamess

Use techniques of tomorrow: Dreamweaver CS5.5 provides features and tools to create websites with the help of modern HTML5 and CSS3 using jQuery and make a memorable experience. In this video tutorial, Anselm Hannemann shows how to use HTML5 and CSS3 is already useful. Learn to use CSS3 effects like drop shadows, rounded corners and transparency so that you can view it with older Web browsers, the pages do without the information and the basic layout is lost. Put a CSS media queries to serve the resolutions of different output media, including using real-time preview in Dreamweaver CS5.5 for consideration.

HTML5: The Missing Manual /by Matthew MacDonald. HTML5 is more than a markup language—its a dozen independent web standards all rolled into one. Until now, all its been missing is a manual.

Walk through the process of designing and implementing from scratch an isometric real time game such as some of the most succesful Facebook Games. Applying HTML5, CSS3, and javascript, this piece shows how to build games using isometric map making, sprite animations, networking, social network integration, high performance rendering and game design.

If you’re a web developer or designer familiar with CSS and javascript, this tightly focused introduction shows you how to add HTML5 media elements to your web pages, and how to provide custom controls for letting web visitors interact with the content.

In Advanced HTML5 you learn to build native rich internet applications by taking advantage of features that: allow a website to operate with or without internet connectivity, relieve the UI thread of intense processing, reduce application overhead by using Web Sockets for constant communication with the server, extend the amount of data available on the client using the new storage APIs, programmatically locate user’s geographical location on a one-time or continual basis and make data on your website available to both viewers and machines with Microdata markup.

We are on the verge of a revolution. The web is becoming the main developing platform and the primary source for information and software. In recent years, mobile devices have turned Internet applications from possibilities into necessities, and now computers that work exclusively on the web are being developed and sold. The software for the web is getting more sophisticated than ever and is replacing desktop applications once and for all. This level of change is both experimental and radical, and HTML5 is making it possible.

We are on the verge of a revolution. The web is becoming the main developing platform and the primary source for information and software. In recent years, mobile devices have turned Internet applications from possibilities into necessities, and now computers that work exclusively on the web are being developed and sold. The software for the web is getting more sophisticated than ever and is replacing desktop applications once and for all. This level of change is both experimental and radical, and HTML5 is making it possible.