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Practical HTML5 Projects
Practical HTML5 Projects is a collection of valuable web techniques that any developer or designer can use. This book is all about saving time. Busy web developers should not have to plow through pages of theory or history only to discover that no practical applications are provided, nor should they have to read a paragraph five times to extract some meaning from it. All of the techniques within this book are explained using fully worked examples that you can immediately apply to your own projects.
With each technique the book provides:
- A practical and useful example (and a screen shot of the end result where applicable).
- The markup for a fully worked example.
- A downloadable template to adapt for use in your own websites.
With Practical HTML5 Projects, you can dive straight into the book at the required chapter and immediately find answers to your website problems, and find the sample code you can use to get it right. Start creating websites using the practical examples, summaries, and templates.
This book includes topics such as rollover navigation menus without scripts, adding audio and video, rounded corners, drop shadows, adding PayPal services, and much more. It also includes sections on troubleshooting and transitioning to HTML5 and CSS3 to help bring your existing content up to date.
With each technique the book provides:
- A practical and useful example (and a screen shot of the end result where applicable).
- The markup for a fully worked example.
- A downloadable template to adapt for use in your own websites.
With Practical HTML5 Projects, you can dive straight into the book at the required chapter and immediately find answers to your website problems, and find the sample code you can use to get it right. Start creating websites using the practical examples, summaries, and templates.
This book includes topics such as rollover navigation menus without scripts, adding audio and video, rounded corners, drop shadows, adding PayPal services, and much more. It also includes sections on troubleshooting and transitioning to HTML5 and CSS3 to help bring your existing content up to date.
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484 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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November 18, 2012
Possibly the worst book written on the subject. It's a total joke.
- The author seems to have teleported into modern times straight from 2001. Most of the book is spent on admiring new HTML5 tags and then replicating it with tons of HTML 4.01 and CSS2.
- No mention of HTML5 APIs. No mention of CSS3 more advanced than border-radius. In fact, there's very little advanced anything.
- The author shows a lot of examples of his own work (looking quite retro) - take a look at the code and discover the FRONTPAGE Generator meta tag!! (Not kidding, it is there.)
- Contains invalid or plain wrong information, i.e.
* advocating usage of BR element to create white space;
* stating that there are four types of CSS selectors: ID, class, group (?) and SPAN. That's right, SPAN tag!
* ridiculous "bug" samples, like "float drop bug", when width of the container is too small to contain the items. Yep, it's categorized as a bug.
- The author expresses many last millennium beliefs, the best (?) of which has to be: "web designers who oppose putting counters on every page must be afraid of exposing their incompetence in SEO". Thus you should put obnoxious counters everywhere and the numbers will prove to the client that they've hired the right person for the job. (It's actually in text, but quote is too long to cite.)
- The author apparently has never heard of "web developers". Everybody who dabbles in the web is automatically a web designer.
The book is full of BS like above. Approx. 70% is wrong or has been made wrong in last 10 years.
I can't believe this was published. In 2012, no less.
- The author seems to have teleported into modern times straight from 2001. Most of the book is spent on admiring new HTML5 tags and then replicating it with tons of HTML 4.01 and CSS2.
- No mention of HTML5 APIs. No mention of CSS3 more advanced than border-radius. In fact, there's very little advanced anything.
- The author shows a lot of examples of his own work (looking quite retro) - take a look at the code and discover the FRONTPAGE Generator meta tag!! (Not kidding, it is there.)
- Contains invalid or plain wrong information, i.e.
* advocating usage of BR element to create white space;
* stating that there are four types of CSS selectors: ID, class, group (?) and SPAN. That's right, SPAN tag!
* ridiculous "bug" samples, like "float drop bug", when width of the container is too small to contain the items. Yep, it's categorized as a bug.
- The author expresses many last millennium beliefs, the best (?) of which has to be: "web designers who oppose putting counters on every page must be afraid of exposing their incompetence in SEO". Thus you should put obnoxious counters everywhere and the numbers will prove to the client that they've hired the right person for the job. (It's actually in text, but quote is too long to cite.)
- The author apparently has never heard of "web developers". Everybody who dabbles in the web is automatically a web designer.
The book is full of BS like above. Approx. 70% is wrong or has been made wrong in last 10 years.
I can't believe this was published. In 2012, no less.
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