HTML5 Getting Started

This course covers a range of topics such as video and audio support, HTML5 APIs, Canvas and SVG, HTML5 Forms, HTML5 Offline Applications, HTML5 Storage and lots more.

Audience
This course is aimed at those who have already completed the Intro to HTML course or have equivalent experience already.

Location
This class is available on a regular scheduled basis at our London centre or can be run at your own location.

Course Overview

HTML5 Overview

• History of HTML5
• WHATWG and W3C specifications
• What is part of HTML5?

Using HTML5 Today

• When can I use these features?
• Using HTML5 on mobile devices
• HTML5 or Flash
• Developer Tools
• Detecting HTML5 features

HTML5 Markup

• HTML5 page structure
• HTML5 DOCTYPE
• HTML5 markup
• Structural elements
• Semantic elements
• Deprecated elements
• HTML5 and CSS

HTML5 Forms

• HTML5 form elements
• Building and using HTML5 forms

HTML5 Offline Applications

• HTML5 offline applications
• Manifest files

HTML5 Audio and Video

• The audio and video elements
• Understanding audio and video
• Audio and video containers
• Audio and video codecs

HTML5 Canvas

• Overview
• Canvas
• Canvas basics

SVG

• How to use SVG
• JavaScript libraries that help with drawing eg: Raphaël, gRaphaël, Visualize, etc

HTML5 Web Sockets

• Web Sockets overview
• jwebsocket

HTML5 Geolocation

• Geolocation overview

HTML5 Storage

• Overview
• Local Storage
• Session Storage
• WebSQL

Drag and Drop

• Overview

Web Workers - asynchronous scripts

• Overview

CSS3

• Transitions
• Transformations
• Animations