Whether you are a professional or amateur web developer you need all the HTML5 tools in your kit, and this book from the author of the best-selling Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaSript, is the fastest and easiest way there is to learn HTML5.HTML5 is the future of HTML and all developers need to get up-to-speed with what it offers, including audio and video, without using a plug-in, and a canvas area with professional tools for creating paths, lines, curves, shapes, fills, gradients, patterns, text and more.This book also provides accurate geolocation, background web workers, offline web applications, microdata, a local storage engine and many other improvements to standard HTML, such as dozens of new form tags and attributes, as described in the following chapter list:Introduction to HTMLThe Layout of an HTML DocumentThe HTML Document BodyFonts, Colors & ImagesLists & TablesLinks, Forms & FramesList of HTML 4.01 TagsAn Introduction To HTML5The HTML5 CanvasFills, Rectangles, Gradients & PatternsWriting Text To The CanvasLines, Paths & CurvesImages, Shadows & PixelsCompositing, Transparency & TransformationsHTML5 GeolocationHTML5 FormsHTML5 Local StorageHTML5 AudioHTML5 VideoMicrodata, Web Workers & Web ApplicationsReasons you will learn all you need from this course:Each Lecture begins by listing the three key skills you will learn.A summary at the end of each lecture reminds you what you have learned.Useful, fully-tested examples illustrate every tag, attribute and function.Each lecture features several notes providing extra, handy advice.The examples can all be downloaded from the companion website.