HTML5 is not just a replacement for plugins. It also makes the Web a first-class development environment by giving JavaScript programmers a solid foundation for building industrial-strength applications. This practical guide takes you beyond simple site creation and shows you how to build self-contained HTML5 applications that can...
If you intend to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for remote computing and storage, Python is an ideal programming language for developing applications and controlling your cloud-based infrastructure. This cookbook gets you started with more than two dozen recipes for using Python with AWS, based on the author’s boto library.
CSS3 lets you create professional-looking websites, but learning its finer points can be tricky—even for seasoned web developers. This Missing Manual shows you how to take your HTML and CSS skills to the next level, with valuable tips, tricks, and step-by-step instructions. You’ll quickly learn how to build web pages that...
Imagine a public storage system that has a place online for structured data about everything that exists—or that could exist. This book introduces Fluidinfo, a system that enables you to store information about anything, real or imaginary, in any digital form. You’ll learn how to organize and search for data, and decide...
The process of identifying physical objects is such a fundamental part of our
experience that we seldom think about how we do it. We use our senses, of
course: we look at, feel, pick up, shake and listen to, smell, and taste objects
until we have a reference for them—then we give them a label. The whole...
I started my professional development career in 1999, when I first was paid a salary to be a
developer. (I don’t count the few years before that when I was just having fun playing around
on the Web.) In 1999 the Web was a scary place. HTML files were loaded down with font
and table tags....
CSS3 is the latest standard for CSS, the syntax to control the style and layout of web pages.
CSS3 is completely backward-compatible, so you will not have to change your existing designs. The CSS3
specification is still under development by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). However, many of the
new CSS3 properties...
Many people ask me how a developer who was working on the back-end for websites
got involved in accessibility. After all, it wasn’t technically a part of my job description.
It wasn’t going to make our sites faster (though I later found out it could have that side
affect). I didn’t have a...
Netscape Navigator 4.0! Internet Explorer 4.0! HTML 3.2! JavaScript! Style sheets! Layers! HTML is changing so fast it's almost impossible to keep up with developments. How do you know what's real, and how do you use it? This book brings it all together for you. HTML: The Definitive Guide is the most comprehensive book...
When the World Wide Web was first invented by Tim Berners-Lee, simply having
a means to create hypertext links to other documents (including ones on remote
computers), and to combine text and images using basic formatting, were
revolutionary concepts that we take for granted today.
W elcome to yet another book on the great programming language of PHP. This book is unique in that it
focuses on higher-end materials and more advanced, cutting-edge topics. We have kept it as modern as
possible with the fast-paced world of the Internet. We take the reader from an intermediate level to a
more advanced level of this...
Motion, to take a good example, is originally a turbid sensation, of which the native
shape is perhaps best preserved in the phenomenon of vertigo. (James 1996a, 62)
Between 1999 and 2009, a “ turbid ” or disordered sensation of change was
felt as wireless connections expanded and eroded the edges of the Internet...
