Dive Into HTML5

by
Mark Pilgrim

with illustrations from the Public Domain

Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits. Please send feedback. The final manuscript will be published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Pre-order the printed Work and be the first in your Community to receive it. The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License.

Table of Contents

  1. A Quite Biased History of HTML5
  2. Detecting HTML5 Features: It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson
  3. What Does It All Mean?
  4. Let’s Call It a Draw(ing Surface)
  5. Video in a Flash (Without That Other Thing)
  6. You Are Here (And So Is Everybody Else)
  7. SELECT * FROM BROWSER WHERE 5 > 2
  8. Thread The Needle, Thread The Script
  9. Let’s Take This Offline
  10. A Form of Madness
  11. “Distributed,” “Extensibility,” And Other Fancy Words

“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” The Joker
(but that doesn’t mean you should keep it to yourself)

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