Programming HTML5 Applications

Preface

1. The Web As Application Platform
-Adding Power to Web Applications
-Developing Web Applications
-JavaScript's Triumph

2. The Power of JavaScript
-Nonblocking I/O and Callbacks
-Lambda Functions Are Powerful
-Closures
-Functional Programming
-Prototypes and How to Expand Objects
-Expanding Functions with Prototypes
-Currying and Object Parameters
-Array Iteration Operations
-You Can Extend Objects, Too

3. Testing JavaScript Applications
-QUnit
-Selenium

4. Local Storage
-The localStorage and sessionStorage Objects
-JQuery Plug-ins

5. IndexedDB
-Adding and Updating Records
-Adding Indexes
-Retrieving Data
-Deleting Data

6. Files
-Blobs
-Working with Files
-Uploading Files
-Drag-and-Drop
-Putting It All Together
-Filesystem

7. Taking It Offline
-Introduction to the Manifest File
-Events
-Debugging Manifest Files

8. Splitting Up Work Through Web Workers
-Web Worker Use Cases
-Using Web Workers
-Web Worker Fractal Example
-Testing and Debugging Web Workers
-A Pattern for Reuse of Multithread Processing
-Libraries for Web Workers

9. Web Sockets
-The Web Sockets Interface
-Setting Up a Web Socket
-Web Socket Example
-Web Socket Protocol

10. New Tags
-Tags for Applications
-Accessibility Through WAI-ARIA
-Microdata
-New Form Types
-Audio and Video
-Canvas and SVG
-Geolocation
-New CSS

Appendix: JavaScript Tools You Should Know

Index