Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in Javascript

Move beyond simple site creation and build web applications with HTML5 that can compete with desktop apps and run on mobile devices. This practical guide shows you how HTML5’s JavaScript APIs give you the power to take web development into many fields that used to require platform-specific development—particularly mobile deployment.

You’ll not only discover how to take advantage of local storage, geolocation, multithreaded processing, and flexible network connectivity with HTML5, you’ll also learn many ways to make application development with JavaScript more powerful.

• Learn how HTML5 will bring about a radical change in web browser applications
• Get details about powerful toolkits that will help you program in JavaScript more efficiently
• Discover powerful aspects of JavaScript that you may not be aware of, such as closures, lambda, and functional programming
• Learn how HTML5 lets your applications store data in the browser so that you’re not bound to the server
• Take your app offline, and explore how an offline application cache can speed up page loading when the app is online
• Use HTML5 Web Workers to create multithreaded applications with JavaScript
• Make your application mobile through geolocation and other HTML5 elements
• Learn a new way to communicate between the browser and a server with web sockets

超越简单的站点创建，使用HTML5构建可以与桌面应用竞争并在移动设备上运行的Web应用。本实用指南向您展示了HTML5的JAVASCRIPT API如何使您能够将Web开发带入许多过去需要特定平台开发的领域–尤其是移动部署。

您不仅将了解如何利用HTML5的本地存储、地理位置、多线程处理和灵活的网络连接，还将学习许多方法来增强使用JavaScript进行应用程序开发的能力。

• 了解HTML5将如何带来Web浏览器应用程序的根本性变化
• Get details about powerful toolkits that will help you program in JavaScript more efficiently
• 了解您可能不知道的Java强大方面，例如闭包、lambda和函数式编程
• 了解HTML5如何让您的应用程序将数据存储在浏览器中，从而使您不必绑定到服务器
• 让您的应用程序离线，并探索离线应用程序缓存如何在应用程序在线时加快页面加载速度
• 使用HTML5 Web Worker通过JavaScript创建多线程应用程序
• 通过地理位置和其他HTML5元素使您的应用程序具有移动性
• 了解使用Web套接字在浏览器和服务器之间进行通信的新方法