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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

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HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is everywhere. From PCs to tablets to smartphones and even TVs, the web is the most ubiquitous application platform and information medium bar. Its becoming a first class citizen in established operating systems such as Microsoft Windows 8 as well as the primary platform of new operating systems such as Google Chrome OS. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" contains over 100 recipes explaining how to utilize modern features and techniques when building websites or web applications. This book will help you to explore the full power of HTML5 - from number rounding to advanced graphics to real-time data binding. "HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook" starts with the display of text and related data. Then you will be guided through graphs and animated visualizations followed by input and input controls. Data serialization, validation and communication with the server as well as modern frameworks with advanced features like automatic data binding and server communication will also be covered in detail.This book covers a fast track into new libraries and features that are part of HTML5!
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
HTML5 Data and Services Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

WHATWG


In 2004, the WHAT Working Group was formed with members from Mozilla, Apple, and Opera. The more commonly used name WHATWG stands for Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group. The groups main goal was to enable the evolution and development of HTML. Slow development of HTML by W3C was also a reason for the group formation.

The focus of the group is the HTML standard, which also includes web storage, web sockets, web workers, and server-side events. There were other standards as well that were developed and discussed in the past. The editor of the specification is Ian "Hixie" Hickson (http://www.hixie.ch/).

We often referred to the WHATWG specification throughout the book, and it is the most up-to-date document, because it is a living standard. This means that the standard is continuously updated as requests for change arrive from the community. On the other hand, the specification does not simply break in backwards-incompatible ways.

More on the organization can be found from http://www.whatwg.org/.

There is also a developer oriented specification available at http://developers.whatwg.org/.