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Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

By : Rodrigo Silveira
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Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games

By: Rodrigo Silveira

Overview of this book

HTML is fast, secure, responsive, interactive, and stunningly beautiful. It lets you target the largest number of devices and browsers with the least amount of effort. Working with the latest technologies is always fun and with a rapidly growing mobile market, it is a new and exciting place to be."Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes you through the journey of learning HTML5 right from setting up the environment to creating fully-functional games. It will help you explore the basics while you work through the whole book with the completion of each game."Learn HTML5 by Creating Fun Games" takes a very friendly approach to teaching fun, silly games for the purpose of giving you a thorough grounding in HTML5. The book has only as much theory as it has to, often in tip boxes, with most of the information explaining how to create HTML5 canvas games. You will be assisted with lots of simple steps with screenshots building towards silly but addictive games.The book introduces you to HTML5 by helping you understand the setup and the underlying environment. As you start building your first game that is a typography game, you understand the significance of elements used in game development such as input types, web forms, and so on.We will see how to write a modern browser-compatible code while creating a basic Jelly Wobbling Game. Each game introduces you to an advanced topic such as vector graphics, native audio manipulation, and dragging-and-dropping. In the later section of the book, you will see yourself developing the famous snake game using requestAnimationFrame along with the canvas API, and enhancing it further with web messaging, web storage, and local storage. The last game of this book, a 2D Space shooter game, will then help you understand mobile design considerations.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Understanding media queries


Media queries have been around since HTML4 and CSS2. Originally, the CSS media attribute was used to specify a different stylesheet to be loaded based on the media type loading the page, such as screen, TV, projection, or handheld. In HTML5, media queries also allow for expressions that check for other properties of the user agent viewing the document such as viewport width, height, resolution, and so on.

A media query is made up of two parts, namely a media type declaration and one or more expressions that evaluate to either true or false. Any CSS rules contained nested within the media query declaration are applied whenever any of the media query expressions evaluate to true. Alternatively, every CSS rule inside a stylesheet referenced by a link tag whose media attribute contains a truthy media query expression is applied to the specified media type.

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