Dive Into HTML5

by
Mark Pilgrim

with illustrations from the Public Domain

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Dive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. The final manuscript has been published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Buy the printed Work — artfully titled “HTML5: Up & Running” — and be the first in your Community to receive it. Your kind and sincere Feedback is always welcome. The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction: Five Things You Should Know About HTML50
  2. A Quite Biased History of HTML51
  3. Detecting HTML5 Features: It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson2
  4. What Does It All Mean?3
  5. Let’s Call It a Draw(ing Surface)4
  6. Video in a Flash (Without That Other Thing)5
  7. You Are Here (And So Is Everybody Else)6
  8. A Place To Put Your Stuff7
  9. Let’s Take This Offline8
  10. A Form of Madness9
  11. “Distributed,” “Extensibility,” And Other Fancy Words10
  12. Manipulating History for Fun & Profit11
  13. The All-In-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting EverythingA
  14. HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and PointersB

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“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” —The Joker
(but that doesn’t mean you should keep it to yourself)

Copyright MMIX–MMXI Mark Pilgrim