The Essential Guide to Html5: Using Games to Learn Html5 and JavaScript

by Jeanine Meyer

Book Overview

HTML5 opens up a plethora of new avenues for application and game development on the web. Games can now be created and interacted with directly within HTML, with no need for users to download extra plugins, or for developers to learn new languages. Important new features such as the Canvas tag enable drawing directly onto the web page. The Audio tag allows sounds to be triggered and played from within your HTML code, the WebSockets API facilitates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1430233834
• ISBN13: 9781430233831
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.5" x 9.3"