Sams Teach Yourself HTML5 in 10 Minutes

by Steven Holzner

Presents a guide to the features of HTML5, covering such topics as adding video and audio to Web pages, creating advanced Web forms, sending messages from one browser to another, and storing data locally.

Genres: Website Design

229 pages, Paperback

First published November 29, 2010

Reviews

[C · Rating 2 out of 5]

This short book contains 10 brief lessons covering some of what's new in HTML5: drawing with the canvas element, dragging and dropping, form controls, video and audio, and storage. Each lesson introduces elements and their attributes, briefly explains their functionality, then shows the code to build a small demo.

The writing style is fairly boring and the examples are uninteresting, although they are basic and practical. I've seen much more exciting introductions to HTML5 online.

I liked seeing how forms are more interactive in HTML5, with basic validation taking place in the browser without requiring server-side scripting. Overall, this book made me realize how closely HTML5 works with JavaScript; I'll definitely need to spend time getting more familiar with JavaScript!

[Toby · Rating 2 out of 5]

A remarkably poor entry by SAMS, padded with unnecessary (and irritating) repetition, utterly uninspiring examples, and dire layout. The whole book could be cut down to about 50 pages without losing much.