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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

Introduction


Forms are part of everyday web application development. We did lot of re-inventions to enable various input features. HTML5 adds few new input types and many different attributes and extensions to the existing structure. Most of these new stuff are already available in modern browsers and make life easier for all of us. For the things that are not there yet, we use a fallback that works on legacy systems. There is no good reason why you should not start using at least some of the features today.

Note

There are various ways to determine support for HTML5 features. Many sites provide a list of supported features but some of them worth mentioning are http://caniuse.com/ and http://html5please.com/. You can often refer to them to get up to date information if you are not interested in adding fallback's.