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Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By : DAVID KARLINS
Book Image

Dreamweaver CS5.5 Mobile and Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery

By: DAVID KARLINS

Overview of this book

<p>Dreamweaver is the most powerful and industry-leading web design software that utilizes cutting edge web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery for web and mobile development. These technologies have radically reconfigured the process of designing Web content and function in the widest possible range of browsing environments ranging from desktops to mobile devices.For experienced Dreamweaver designers and for designers new to Dreamweaver, this book explains in detail how to take advantage of the new features available in the latest releases of Dreamweaver that add support for HTML5, CSS3, and jQuery. In addition to this, the book also contains detailed step-by-step directions for building mobile apps in Dreamweaver CS5.5.This book starts off by teaching you to create web pages in Dreamweaver using the latest technology and approaches — HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. It demonstrates how to create or customize pages with HTML5 layouts and add multimedia to these pages with HTML5 elements. Then you will learn to add various CSS3 effects to web pages. The book also covers different techniques of adding interactivity to web pages. The later chapters show how to optimize web pages with Dreamweaver for display in various browsing environments. You will also learn to build jQuery-based mobile apps from scratch in the later chapters. By the time you're finished, you'll have learned several techniques to use the latest features of Dreamweaver for web and mobile development.</p>
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Making audio HTML5-ready


The first thing we need to do, before we can put them on our website, is make our audio files HTML-5 ready.

Before sifting through various audio formats to figure out which one goes with which browser, let me provide a very basic overview of audio compression.

Audio compression

You probably are familiar with at least some of the popular audio formats such as MP3, WAV, AIFF, and so on.

Raw, uncompressed audio files, in the WAV (for Windows) and AIFF (for Macs) formats, provide the highest available online audio sound quality. However, these files are very large, and download too slowly for most users. MP3 audio files, on the other hand, are substantially smaller in file size. A compression algorithm is used to squeeze extra data out of files as they are converted to MP3. Moreover, for most listeners, and most audio files, MP3 quality is sufficient. Thus, when we talk about making audio files available online, we are often talking about compressed audio files in formats...