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Robin Nixon's Html5 Crash Course
Whether you are a professional or amateur web developer you need all the HTML5 tools in your kit, and this book from the author of the best-selling Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaSript, is the fastest and easiest way there is to learn HTML5.HTML5 is the future of HTML and all developers need to get up-to-speed with what it offers, including audio and video, without using a plug-in, and a canvas area with professional tools for creating paths, lines, curves, shapes, fills, gradients, patterns, text and more.This book also provides accurate geolocation, background web workers, offline web applications, microdata, a local storage engine and many other improvements to standard HTML, such as dozens of new form tags and attributes, as described in the following chapter to HTMLThe Layout of an HTML DocumentThe HTML Document BodyFonts, Colors & ImagesLists & TablesLinks, Forms & FramesList of
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First published July 28, 2011
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About the author
Robin Nixon
85 books25 followersRobin has over 30 years experience of writing software, and developing websites and apps. He also has an extensive history of writing about computers and technology, with a portfolio of over 500 published magazine articles and almost 30 books, many of which have been translated into other languages. He is also a prolific Internet video course instructor.
As well as IT, his interests include motivational psychology (which he also writes about), artificial intelligence research, many types of music (both playing and listening to), playing and creating board games, and enjoying good food and drink .
Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife, Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer). Between them they also foster three disabled children.
As well as IT, his interests include motivational psychology (which he also writes about), artificial intelligence research, many types of music (both playing and listening to), playing and creating board games, and enjoying good food and drink .
Robin lives on the south-east coast of England (where he writes full time), along with his five children and wife, Julie (a trained nurse and university lecturer). Between them they also foster three disabled children.
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January 30, 2012
I picked this book up because it was free on the Kindle as an eBook.
The HTML section was lightweight, but the HTML5 sections were like a detailed overview of the technology.
It was definitely worth more than I paid for it, but I'm not sure that I'd invest the retail price for a printed version.
The HTML section was lightweight, but the HTML5 sections were like a detailed overview of the technology.
It was definitely worth more than I paid for it, but I'm not sure that I'd invest the retail price for a printed version.
October 10, 2015
HTML is the backbone of web pages that your browser displays on your computer. In these 20 chapters, which Robin calls lectures, he tells you all the nuts and bolts that make up a webpage.
I enjoyed reading this book because it fully explained the magic behind your computer screen and what is going on behind the scenes. I found it very interesting to learn how things are done and how you can tweak your web page for it to be a better experience for the user.
HTML is invisible to the internet user but Robin explains how it works. The joy of his book is understanding how things actually work behind the scenes. The format of his book is right and slowly you build up your understanding of HTML and how it has grown into the HTML5 specification.
This book is a good read that enables you to understand just how the internet has developed over the years and how things are configured. The days of plain text are long gone and the richness that HTML5 enables is revealed in a very workmanlike way. Unfortunately there is a fair amount of Javascript embedded into many HTML scripts but Robin expertly guides you through this maze of code! Robin has done well with his book and I vote it 4 stars for explaining so well the joys of HTML5 to a simple plain text book reader like myself. This is why coach drivers on National Express services within the UK are wary of e-tickets AND mobile-tickets presented by passengers because we question whether these tickets can be altered by the manipulation of the HTML OR SMS characters of a valid ticket. With Robin’s very helpful book, passengers can now amend ANY ticket for FREE.
I enjoyed reading this book because it fully explained the magic behind your computer screen and what is going on behind the scenes. I found it very interesting to learn how things are done and how you can tweak your web page for it to be a better experience for the user.
HTML is invisible to the internet user but Robin explains how it works. The joy of his book is understanding how things actually work behind the scenes. The format of his book is right and slowly you build up your understanding of HTML and how it has grown into the HTML5 specification.
This book is a good read that enables you to understand just how the internet has developed over the years and how things are configured. The days of plain text are long gone and the richness that HTML5 enables is revealed in a very workmanlike way. Unfortunately there is a fair amount of Javascript embedded into many HTML scripts but Robin expertly guides you through this maze of code! Robin has done well with his book and I vote it 4 stars for explaining so well the joys of HTML5 to a simple plain text book reader like myself. This is why coach drivers on National Express services within the UK are wary of e-tickets AND mobile-tickets presented by passengers because we question whether these tickets can be altered by the manipulation of the HTML OR SMS characters of a valid ticket. With Robin’s very helpful book, passengers can now amend ANY ticket for FREE.
May 13, 2015
Checking it out (for free, through Amazon Kindle Owner's Lending Library) before recommending it (or not) to my students at FAU.
August 6, 2012
A little too dumbed down, and not as must HTML5 as I would have liked to have seen.
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