Pro HTML5 Programming

Author: Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers & Frank Salim
Publisher: Apress, 2010
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1430227908
Aimed at: Early adopters of HTML5
Rating: 3.5
Pros: Competent overview of new facilities
Cons: Not really an expert's book
Reviewed by: Ian Elliot

Another in the ever-growing tide of books on the this currently hot topic. Is it one to add to your shelf?


Author: Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers & Frank Salim
Publisher: Apress, 2010
Pages: 304
ISBN: 978-1430227908
Aimed at: Early adopters of HTML5
Rating: 3.5
Pros: Competent overview of new facilities
Cons: Not really an expert's book
Reviewed by: Ian Elliot

 

This is another in the ever-growing tide of books on the currently hot topic. HTML5 is important but it really isn't a revolution. If anything it's a retreat into more of the same rather than anything truly revolutionary. It isn't even difficult as it offers very little you haven't seen before. As a result it is fairly easy to write a reasonable HTML5 book. This particular HTML5 book is reasonable, It is difficult to find anything much to criticise or praise. It does a competent job of taking you through the basics of HTML5.


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It starts with an overview of HTML5 - not much to say except for some history and the introduction of the new semantic tags. Chapter 2 then deals with the Canvas API and again if you have used SVG or any graphics system like it you should find everything fairly straightforward - with or without the book. Then we move on to Audio and Video again not difficult apart from the problems with the licencing of codecs and which codecs to use. Chapter 4 deals with geolocation and covers the wider issues of how latitude and longitude work and the various way of establishing location.

From here the book deals with more technical aspects. Chapter 5 describes the communication APIs, Chapter 6 is on Websockets, Chapter 7 covers forms, Chapter 8 web workers, Chapter 9 web storage and Chapter 10 offline working. The final chapter is a look at the future of HTML and covers topics such as 3D and touch interfaces.

Each chapter describes its technology simply and clearly and presents some short examples. It covers which browsers support which feature at the start of each chapter and tell you how to test for support. It doesn't go into details of what to do if the feature isn't supported. It also, reasonably, ignores any server-side issues except in the chapter on Web Sockets, where it does consider what modifications are required to implement the protocol.

If you want an overview of the new facilities in HTML5 then this is a suitable place to start - but it is hardly essential reading.


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The Async-First Playbook

Author: Sumeet Gayathri Moghe
Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-0138187538
Print: 0138187533
Kindle: B0CCTZHB9N
Audience: Agile developers
Rating: 4
Reviewer: Kay Ewbank

The driver behind this book was the pandemic and the need to find ways to make remote working effective for teams. So do [ ... ]



SQL Server 2022 Query Performance Tuning (Apress)

Author: Grant Fritchey
Publisher: Apress
Pages: 745
ISBN:978-1484288900
Print:1484288904
Kindle:B0BLYD98SQ
Audience: DBAs & SQL Devs
Rating: 4.7
Reviewer: Ian Stirk 

A popular performance tuning book gets updated for SQL Server 2022, how does it fare?


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