Pangaea

Dive Into HTML5

by
Mark Pilgrim

with illustrations from the Public Domain

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ive Into HTML5 seeks to elaborate on a hand-picked Selection of features from the HTML5 specification and other fine Standards. I shall publish Drafts periodically, as time permits. Please send feedback. The final manuscript will be published on paper by O’Reilly, under the Google Press imprint. Pre-order the printed Work and be the first in your Community to receive it. The Work shall remain online under the CC-BY-3.0 License.

Table of Contents

1. A Quite Biased History of HTML51
2. Detecting HTML5 Features: It’s Elementary, My Dear Watson2
3. What Does It All Mean?3
4. Let’s Call It a Draw(ing Surface)4
5. Video in a Flash (Without That Other Thing)5
6. You Are Here (And So Is Everybody Else)6
7. SELECT * FROM BROWSER WHERE 5 > 27
8. Thread The Needle, Thread The Script8
9. Let’s Take This Offline9
10. A Form of Madness10
11. “Distributed,” “Extensibility,” And Other Fancy Words11

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“If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” —The Joker
(but that doesn’t mean you should keep it to yourself)

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