Reviews for Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development

The average rating for Pro HTML5 Programming: Powerful APIs for Richer Internet Application Development based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-04-05 00:00:00 Faith Faith This book gives an introduction into features new with HTML5. Since the feature set is not yet complete and even in flux it cannot be entirely authoritative on the subject, but it covers the current, most important areas well. Topics that stood out for me and that I think will make the next level of web apps a success are: Message events (cross document communication, XmlHttpRequest level 2), web sockets, web workers, storage and drag'n'drop support. The world yet has to see applications making full use of this, but they will come... My thoughts on other areas are more ambivalent; though it would be unfair to call all of the following features addressing fringe cases, their use is for "special" cases: Canvas (nice, but "limited" to explicitly painting/combining images), SVG (nice, but how'd intensively use this client-side?), Embedded Media (Audio/Video - good for showing video, yes...), Geolocation (when needed, and available) and Forms (long overdue enhancements). While offline support sounds a good idea, realizing this is VERY hard and I remain to be conviced to see something that behaves even closely to what people expect (desktop...); also, the "application cache" seems to be in competition with the established caching mechanisms defined by HTTP - I am not too clear on that. I've not read the book with the intention of getting my hands dirty right away, so for me sometimes the printed examples were too extensive; I got the point without several pages of HTML or JavaScript. Overall I am satisfied with the book as it gave me a good overview and I hope that the relevant keywords are locked up in my head now so that when the time comes I can remember what can be done with HTML5...

Review # 2 was written on 2012-07-06 00:00:00 Kamal Hasan [CZ] - četl jsem český překlad "HTML5 - Programujte moderní webové aplikace", Computer Press 2011. Občas zvláštní překlad, kdy věta nedává vůbec smysl, ale s ohledem na rozsah knížky je to přijatelné. Hodně pokročilá knížka, konkrétní ukázky použití novinek v HTML5 na reálných příkladech. Bez (zbytečného) vysvětlování HTML/CSS/JS, jejichž znalost se předpokládá.