TheDefinitive Guide to HTML5, Second Edition, provides you with acomprehensive guide to modern HTML web-development. It contains everything youneed to know in order to create professional standards-compliant, modernwebsites from scratch. You’ll find coverage of the full HTML5 ecosystems,together with associated APIs that complement the core HTML5 language. Withthis book you will need no other HTML5 reference.

The book begins by tackling the basicsof the HTML5 language, ensuring you understand the current best-practices andthe key uses of the HTML elements, including those new to HTML5. This sectionalso covers the proper use of CSS3, JavaScript and the DOM, to make youproficient in all the core aspect of modern website creation.

With this foundation laid the remainderof the book covers the wide range of W3C APIs that surround and support thecore HTML5 specification. Here you’ll achieve a thorough working knowledge ofthe Geolocation API, understand how web storage works, create off-lineapplications and learn how the new HTML5 drag-and-drop functionality is used.