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HTML5 Enterprise Application Development

By : Nehal Shah, Gabriel José Balda Ortíz
Book Image

HTML5 Enterprise Application Development

By: Nehal Shah, Gabriel José Balda Ortíz

Overview of this book

<p>HTML5 has been a trending topic for a long time, but the lack of Flash support on iOS devices has sped up its penetration. New features in HTML5 come at a time when web developers are pushing the limits of what is achievable and HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript have become an important alternative for building rich user interfaces.<br /><br />"HTML5 Enterprise Application Development" will guide you through the process of building an enterprise application with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript through creating a movie finder application. You will learn how to apply HTML5 capabilities in real development problems and how to support consistent user experiences across multiple browsers and operating systems, including mobile platforms.<br /><br />This book will teach you how to build an enterprise application from scratch using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and external APIs.<br /><br />You will discover how to develop engaging experiences using HTML5 capabilities, including video and audio management, location services, and 3D and 2D animations. We will also cover debugging techniques, automated testing, and performance evaluations to give you all the tools needed for an efficient development workflow.<br /><br />"HTML5 Enterprise Application Development" is a comprehensive guide for anyone who wants to build an enterprise web application. You will learn through the implementation of a real-world application as we show you handy libraries, development tips, and development tools.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
HTML5 Enterprise Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

How I learned to stop worrying and love Flash


The awful truth is that HTML5 video and media capabilities are a new technology and the browser war makes it even more difficult to adopt these solutions as a standard for media playback. While Flash requires the installation of a plugin, it is a reliable technology to reproduce media and stream it across multiple browsers.

While Flash support decreases on mobile devices and video and audio specifications improve, certainly there will be a future with no Flash media, but for now Flash is, at worst, a fallback solution for cross-browser compatibility.

Huge media delivery products like YouTube still rely on Flash as the primary technology. You can decide to use HTML5 as your primary technology and fall back to Flash if the video and audio tags are not supported or vice versa, but the choice should be made based on your application's requirements.