HTML5: The Missing Manual

This book is the Chinese edition of HTML5: The Missing Manual from O'Reilly's "The Missing Manual" series, translated by Li Songfeng, Zhu Wei, and Liu Shuai. The second edition was published by Posts & Telecom Press in 2015, with 402 pages and about 620,000 Chinese characters, as part of the "Turing Programming Series." The book is divided into four parts and 13 chapters. Part One, "Modern Markup," begins with the story of how HTML5 came to be, explaining its three design principles—do not break the Web, pave the cowpaths, and prioritize practicality—then guides readers in restructuring traditional pages with semantic elements such as header, nav, section, article, aside, figure, and footer, and in using microdata, ARIA, and RDFa to make markup "more meaningful" to search engines and assistive technologies; Chapter 4 discusses new form elements, input types, and client-side validation. Part Two focuses on "Video, Graphics, and Effects": using audio and video without plugins, handling cross-browser compatibility, and writing subtitle tracks; enhancing pages with CSS3 fonts, gradients, transitions, transforms, and animations; using media queries for responsive design so the same code adapts to desktop, tablet, and phone; and using Canvas to draw shapes, images, and text, then further implement interaction and animation. Part Three, "Building Web Apps," introduces data storage methods such as localStorage and IndexedDB, offline applications and cache manifests, communication with web servers, and geolocation, Web Workers, and history management. Part Four, the appendices, provides a quick introduction to CSS and JavaScript. Runnable code examples run throughout, with the goal of helping readers upgrade web pages from "static documents" to "offline-capable web apps."