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

By : DAVID KARLINS
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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

HTML5 video and Dreamweaver CS5.5


In order to understand the challenges of presenting an online video today, it is illuminating to frame things in the evolution of web video to this point. For one thing, older web video is still an issue, as are older browsers. We have to address the challenge of presenting a video in both new browsers that support current standards and older browsers that do not.

Moreover, the current rather crazy state of competing online video formats won't make much sense without being anchored in an understanding of how this current state of things emerged.

In order to sort all this out, it is useful to divide the emergent online video into three phases.

Early formats

The first stage of the online video was characterized by a diffusion of different, non-compatible video formats and players. Apple's QuickTime video played in QuickTime player, which came with Apple's Safari browser. Microsoft's Internet Explorer played various Microsoft video formats such as AVI or WMF...