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HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook

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HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook

Overview of this book

HTML5 is the most significant new advancement the web has seen in many years. HTML5 adds many new features including the video, audio, and canvas elements, as well as the integration of SVG. This cookbook is packed full of recipes that will help you harness HTML5’s next generation multimedia features. HTML5 is the future.Whether you’re a seasoned pro or a total newbie, this book gives you the recipes that will serve as your practical guide to creating semantically rich websites and apps using HTML5. Get ready to perform a quantum leap harnessing HTML5 to create powerful, real world applications. Many of the new key features of HTML5 are covered, with self-contained practical recipes for each topic. Forget hello world. These are practical recipes you can utilize straight away to create immersive, interactive multimedia applications. Create a stylish promo page in HTML5. Use SVG to replace text dynamically. Use CSS3 to control background size and appearance. Use the Canvas to process images dynamically. Apply custom playback controls to your video.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
HTML5 Multimedia Development Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Introduction


"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo

Boring. Tedious. Mindless. Why do web users' eyes glaze over and minds go numb when presented with an interactive form online? This author believes at least part of the problem lies with the information architect who arranged the form fields and — to a lesser degree — with the front-end developer who coded it.

Admittedly, forms aren't sexy. But if you're a web developer (and chances are, if you're reading this, you are) then odds are at some point in your career you were asked to mark up and style some sort of form. If you dreaded coding that form, imagine the amount of dread you aided in creating in your user. That ends now.

You're mature and seeking new challenges worthy of that maturity. And if we can stop worrying and learn to love the form, the odds are better that our audiences will actually enjoy them too.

In this chapter we'll look at real-life examples of how HTML5 is used for interactive forms, including displaying placeholder...