Pro HTML5 Performance

by Jay Bryant, Mike Jones

Pro HTML5 Performance provides a practical guide to building extremely fast, light-weight and scalable websites using fully standards compliant techniques and best practices. It strikes a balance between imparting best-practice information for when you’re building ground up and instantly applicable techniques to help you solve issues with your existing projects. In addition to a wealth of tips, tricks and secrets you’ll find advice and code samples that elegantly layout the problems your facing and the best ways of solving them. By reading Pro HTML5 Performance you’ll squeeze every last ounch of performance from your code, giving your applications unrivalled speed and cost-efficiency.

Genres: Programming

309 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2012

Reviews

[Samuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Given the title of this book I really expected something different. While this book has some great tips and is presented well, I expected a deep dive into every aspect of HTML5 and how to fine tune those different areas.

Well, the author really just takes one example application where he/his company demonstrate the best practices they've learned, and they demonstrate it through a single overarching website throughout the book.

Also the author harkens on one single way of creating links, which is through PHP and having them scripted. I'm not saying at all this might not be the best way, I'm just saying I believe too much emphasis is put on that area and also on the webapp they are creating, and not enough emphasis put on the nitty gritty internals of HTML 5 and various optimizations.

I did learn some near things though, and the book does present what it presents well, I nearly gave the book a 4 so don't let a 3 scare you away, the book simply didn't present things in a style I personally liked/expected, but that doesn't mean it won't catch someone else's attention in full.

[Dhuaine · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book reminds me of a technical university thesis. First half discusses performance factors in theory - nothing as insightful as Steve Sounders books - and the other half describes in minor detail solutions used on a website the writers developed. Sure, they're not bad practices, and especially CSS tricks will be useful for beginning and intermediate front-end developers, but they're not quite "HTML5 performance". I wanted to read stats, research and experiments on various aspects of HTML5, not a "let's-build-a-website" walkthrough.

It's a good book, but it could really use title change. The current one is misleading.