HTML 5: Introduction
Ehsan ToreiniIslamic Azad University, Mashhad Branch
2012, April
• You may well ask: "How can I start using HTML5?".• HTML5 ~= HTML + CSS + JS
• You don’t need to throw anything away – builds on HTML4
• It’s easy to get started“Upgrading” to HTML5 can be as simple as changing your doctype.
• It already worksChrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, IE9, and some mobile browsers
• It’s here to stayW3C more 15 years (XHTML expires & not renewed)
• 1991 HTML• 1994 HTML 2• 1996 CSS 1 + JavaScript• 1997 HTML 4• 1998 CSS 2• 2000 XHTML 1• 2002 Tableless Web Design• 2005 AJAX• 2006 jQuery• 2009 HTML 5
How Did HTML5 Get Started?• HTML5 is a cooperation between the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).
• WHATWG was working with web forms and applications, and W3C was working with XHTML 2.0. In 2006, they decided to cooperate and create a new version of HTML.
• Some rules for HTML5 were established: New features should be based on HTML, CSS, DOM, and
JavaScript Reduce the need for external plugins (like Flash) Better error handling More markup to replace scripting HTML5 should be device independent The development process should be visible to the public
New Features
Some of the most interesting new features in HTML5 :• The canvas element for drawing• The video and audio elements for media playback• Better support for local offline storage• New content specific elements, like article, footer,
header, nav, section• New form controls, like calendar, date, time, email, url,
search
Introduction
• Important to stay current in HCI• Browsers will eventually replace other UI
platforms
Why HTML5?
• HTML5 and javascript are interpreted– No compilation– Can test UI changes with a console window
Firebug extension for Firefox
Why HTML5?
• Cross-platform– Most browsers (read: not IE) conform to the W3C
standards– The same code works on PC, Mac, Linux
Why HTML5?
• Mobile device support
Why HTML5?
• No need for software updates– Everyone sees the latest version
• Development can be done anywhere– No need for special software– Just a terminal and Firefox/Firebug
Browser Support
• HTML5 is not yet an official standard, and no browsers have full HTML5 support.
• But all major browsers (Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer) continue to add new HTML5 features to their latest versions.
• When will HTML 5 be ready?– Not in few years to come
• Latest version is HTML5– Has all of the power of native applications– Plus more!
• DOM
When you hit a page
– browser constructs a Document Object Model
(DOM)
– collection of objects represent HTML elements
on the page
• HTML page is like a tree, series of nested elements (tags)
• Root element is <html>:
<html lang="en">
• 1st Child of the root element is: <head>• Many elements nested – important items
Body Element
• Defines the document’s body. The body element contains all the contents of an HTML document.
• Many elements nested – important items
Meta Element• Q: I never use funny characters. Do I still need to declare my character encoding (charset)?
• A: Yes! You should always specify a character encoding on every HTML page you serve. Not specifying an encoding can lead to security vulnerabilities.
• UTF-7 is an encoding originally designed for SMTP gateways that couldn't deal with 8-bit/binary characters. It uses a modified Base64 encoding to represent 8-bit characters and ASCII non-printable characters using 7-bit ASCII. The string <script>alert(1)</script> can be encoded in UTF-7 as +ADw-script+AD4-alert(1)+ADw-/script+AD4-
• Generally, a character encoding is set in the Content-Type HTTP Header or a META tag in the HTML itself.
• When the web server does not include an explicit character encoding in its HTTP response, Internet Explorer will attempt to guess the encoding. If certain strings of user input say, +ADw-script+AD4-alert(1)+ADw-/script+AD4- -- are echoed back early enough in the HTML page,Internet Explorer may incorrectly guess that the page is encoded in UTF-7. Suddenly--, the otherwise harmless user input becomes active HTML and will execute.
• Defines the title of the document (required)• Shown by URL or in Tab
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />…<title>Worry Basket</title>
</head><body></body></html>
Link Element
• Defines the relationship between a document and an external resource
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
<meta charset="utf-8" /><title>Worry Basket</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/style-original.css" /><link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml"
title="My Weblog feed" href="/feed/" /></head><body></body></html>
REL = STYLESHEET
• Most frequently used link relationship• Pointing to CSS rules– Stored in a separate file
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style-original.css" type="text/css" />
HTML5 optimization – drop the type attribute – there is only 1 stylesheet language for the web CSS
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style-original.css" />
REL = SHORTCUT ICON
• Small icon associated with the page
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
• Usually displayed in the browser's location bar next to the URL or Tab
REL = ALTERNATE
• Quite common, when combined with either the RSS or Atom media type:
“feed autodiscovery”
• It allows syndicated feed readers (like Google Reader) to discover that a site has a news feed
• You can also use other type attribues PDF
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="My Weblog feed" href="/feed/" />
Full Chart of link relations
<script> Element
• Used to define a Client-Side script– Either contains scripting statements or points to
an external file<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head>
<meta charset="utf-8" /><title>Worry Basket</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/style-original.css" /><script type="text/javascript" src="./js/jquery-1.5.1.js"></script>
</head><body></body></html>
What is Needed?
More Meaning to tags than just Divs
<header> Element
• Introduction or group of navigation elements
Navigation
• Defines a section intended for navigation
Footer Element
• More specific element for footer of a document
Header Nav
Article AsideHeader
Section
Section
Footer
Figure
A Form of Madness
• Everybody knows about web forms, right? • Make a <form>• A few <input type="text"> elements, maybe
an<input type="password">• Finish it off with an <input
type="submit"> button• You’re done.
• HTML5 defines over a dozen new input types
New Input Type
• HTML5 has several new input types for forms. These new features allow for better input control and validation.
• New input types :• email• url• number• range• Date pickers (date, month, week, time, datetime, datetime-
local)• search• color
Browser Support• Browser support for the new input type :
Input Type IE Firefox Opera Chrome Safari
email No 4.0 9.0 10.0 No
url No 4.0 9.0 10.0 No
number No No 9.0 7.0 No
range No No 9.0 4.0 4.0
Date pickers No No 9.0 10.0 No
search No 4.0 11.0 10.0 No
color No No 11.0 No No
Input Type - email• The email type is used for input fields that should contain
an e-mail address.• The value of the email field is automatically validated when
the form is submitted.• Basic syntax :
E-mail: <input type="email" name="user_email" />
Input Type - url• The url type is used for input fields that should contain a
URL address.• The value of the url field is automatically validated when
the form is submitted.• Basic syntax :
Homepage: <input type="url" name="user_url" />
Input Type - number• The number type is used for input fields that should
contain a numeric value.• You can also set restrictions on what numbers are accepted• Example :
Points: <input type="number" name="points" min="1" max="10" />
Input Type - number• Use the following attributes to specify restrictions for the
number type:
Attribute Value Description
max number Specifies the maximum value allowed
min number Specifies the minimum value allowed
step number Specifies legal number intervals (if step="3", legal numbers could be -3,0,3,6, etc)
value number Specifies the default value
Input Type - range• The range type is used for input fields that should contain a
value from a range of numbers.• The range type is displayed as a slider bar.• You can also set restrictions on what numbers are accepted• Example:
<input type="range" name="points" min="1" max="10" />
Input Type - range• Use the following attributes to specify restrictions for the
range type:
Attribute Value Description
max number Specifies the maximum value allowed
min number Specifies the minimum value allowed
step number Specifies legal number intervals (if step="3", legal numbers could be -3,0,3,6, etc)
value number Specifies the default value
Input Type – Date Pickers• HTML5 has several new input types for selecting date and
time:• date - Selects date, month and year• month - Selects month and year• week - Selects week and year• time - Selects time (hour and minute)• datetime - Selects time, date, month and year (UTC time)• datetime-local - Selects time, date, month and year (local time)
• Example:
Date: <input type="date" name="user_date" />
Input Type – search• The search type is used for search fields, like a site search,
or Google search.• The search field behaves like a regular text field.
Input Type – color• The color type is used for input fields that should contain a
color.• This input type will allow you to select a color from a color
picker :
Color: <input type="color" name="user_color" />
New <input> types
1. <input type="search"> for search boxes2. <input type="number"> for spinboxes3. <input type="range"> for sliders4. <input type="color"> for color pickers5. <input type=""tel> for telephone numbers6. <input type="url"> for web addresses7. <input type="email"> for email addresses8. <input type="date"> for calendar date pickers9. <input type="month"> for months10.<input type="week"> for weeks11.<input type="time"> for timestamps12.<input type="datetime"> for precise, absolute date+time stamps13.<input type="datetime-local"> for local dates and times
buttoncheckboxcolordate datetime datetime-local email filehiddenimagemonth number passwordradiorange resetsearchsubmitteltexttime urlweek
New HTML Form Elements<input type="email" name="user_email" required placeholder="Enter Email Address"/>
<input type="search" />
<input type="url" name="url" required autofocus/>
<input type="tel" name="tel" required/>
<input type="number" name="number" min="1" max="5" step="1" value="3" required/>
<input type="range" name="range" min="1" max="5" step="1" value="3" required/>
<input type="datetime" name="datetime" required/>
<input type="month" name="month" required/>
New Form Element• HTML5 has several new elements and attributes for
forms.• New form types :• datalist• keygen• output
Browser Support• Browser support for the new input type :
Input Type IE Firefox Opera Chrome Safari
datalist No 4.0 9.5 No No
keygen No 4.0 10.5 3.0 No
output No No 9.5 10.0 No
datalist Element• The datalist element specifies a list of options for an input field.• The list is created with option elements inside the datalist.• To bind a datalist to an input field, let the list attribute of the input
field refer to the id of the datalist :
Webpage: <input type="url" list="url_list" name="link" /><datalist id="url_list"><option label="W3Schools" value="http://www.w3schools.com" /><option label="Google" value="http://www.google.com" /><option label="Microsoft" value="http://www.microsoft.com" /></datalist>
keygen Element• The purpose of the keygen element is to provide a secure
way to authenticate users.• The keygen element is a key-pair generator. When a form is
submitted, two keys are generated, one private and one public.
• The private key is stored on the client, and the public key is sent to the server. The public key could be used to generate a client certificate to authenticate the user in the future.
• Currently, the browser support for this element is not good enough to be a useful security standard.
keygen Element• Example :
<form action="demo_form.asp" method="get">Username: <input type="text" name="usr_name" />Encryption: <keygen name="security" /><input type="submit" /></form>
output Element• The output element is used for different types of output, like
calculations or script output.• Example :
<output id="result" onforminput="resCalc()"></output>
Form Validation
• Determining whether a random string of characters is a valid email address is unbelievably complicated.
• The harder you look, the more complicated it gets. • Isn’t it be easier to offload the entire headache to
your browser?
• Addition of the pattern attribute to all the various form fields to which validation applies
<p>Price: <input type="text" pattern="\d+(\.\d{2})?" required></p>
New Form Attributes• HTML5 has several new elements and attributes for forms.
New form attributes :• autocomplete• novalidate
• New input attributes :• autocomplete• autofocus• form• form overrides (formaction, formenctype, formmethod, formnovalidate,
formtarget)• height and width• list• min, max and step• multiple• pattern (regexp)• placeholder• required
Browser Support• Browser support for the new input type :
Input Type IE Firefox Opera Chrome Safari
autocomplete 8.0 3.5 9.5 3.0 4.0
autofocus No 4.0 10.0 3.0 4.0
form No 4.0 9.5 10.0 No
form overrides No 4.0 10.5 10.0 No
height and width 8.0 3.5 9.5 3.0 4.0
list No 4.0 9.5 No No
min, max and step No No 9.5 3.0 No
multiple No 3.5 11.0 3.0 4.0
novalidate No 4.0 11.0 10.0 No
pattern No 4.0 9.5 3.0 No
placeholder No 4.0 11.0 3.0 3.0
required No 4.0 9.5 3.0 No
autocomplete Attribute• The autocomplete attribute specifies that the form or input field should
have an autocomplete function.• Note: The autocomplete attribute works with <form>, and the following
<input> types: text, search, url, telephone, email, password, datepickers, range, and color.
• When the user starts to type in an autocomplete field, the browser should display options to fill in the field :<form action="demo_form.asp" method="get" autocomplete="on">First name: <input type="text" name="fname" /><br />Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" /><br />E-mail: <input type="email" name="email" autocomplete="off" /><br /><input type="submit" /></form>
• In some browsers you may need to activate the autocomplete function for this to work.
autofocus Attribute• The autofocus attribute specifies that a field should automatically get
focus when a page is loaded.• Note: The autofocus attribute works with all <input> types.
User name: <input type="text" name="user_name" autofocus="autofocus" />
form Attribute• The form attribute specifies one or more forms the input field belongs
to.• Note: The form attribute works with all <input> types.• To refer to more than one form, use a space-separated list. • The form attribute must refer to the id of the form it belongs to:
<form action="demo_form.asp" method="get" id="user_form">First name:<input type="text" name="fname" /><input type="submit" /></form>Last name: <input type="text" name="lname" form="user_form" />
Form Override Attribute• The form override attributes allow you to override some of the
attributes set for the form element.• The form override attributes are :
• formaction - Overrides the form action attribute• formenctype - Overrides the form enctype attribute• formmethod - Overrides the form method attribute• formnovalidate - Overrides the form novalidate attribute• formtarget - Overrides the form target attribute
• Note: The form override attributes works with the following <input> types: submit and image.
Form Override Attribute• Example :
<form action="demo_form.asp" method="get" id="user_form">E-mail: <input type="email" name="userid" /><br /><input type="submit" value="Submit" /><br /><input type="submit" formaction="demo_admin.asp" value="Submit as admin" /><br /><input type="submit" formnovalidate="true"value="Submit without validation" /><br /></form>
• These attributes are helpful for creating different submit buttons.
height and width Attribute• The height and width attributes specifies the height and
width of the image used for the input type image.• The height and width attributes only works with <input>
type: image.
<input type="image" src="img_submit.gif" width="24" height="24" />
list Attribute• The list attribute specifies a datalist for an input field. A
datalist is a list of options for an input field.• The list attribute works with the following <input> types :
text, search, url, telephone, email, date pickers, number, range, and color.
Webpage: <input type="url" list="url_list" name="link" /><datalist id="url_list"><option label="W3Schools" value="http://www.w3schools.com" /><option label="Google" value="http://www.google.com" /><option label="Microsoft" value="http://www.microsoft.com" /></datalist>
min, max and step Attribute• The min, max and step attributes are used to specify
restrictions for input types containing numbers or dates.• The max attribute specifies the maximum value allowed for
the input field.• The min attribute specifies the minimum value allowed for
the input field.• The step attribute specifies the legal number intervals for the
input field (if step="3", legal numbers could be -3,0,3,6, etc).
min, max and step Attribute• The min, max, and step attributes works with the following
<input> types: date pickers, number, and range.• The example below shows a numeric field that accepts values
between 0 and 10, with a step of 3 (legal numbers are 0, 3, 6 and 9):
Points: <input type="number" name="points" min="0" max="10" step="3" />
multiple Attribute• The multiple attribute specifies that multiple values can be
selected for an input field.• The multiple attribute works with the following <input>
types: email, and file.• Example :
Select images: <input type="file" name="img" multiple="multiple" />
novalidate Attribute• The novalidate attribute specifies that the form or input field
should not be validated when submitted.• If this attribute is present the form will not validate form
input.• The novalidate attribute works with: <form> and the
following <input> types: text, search, url, telephone, email, password, date pickers, range, and color.
• Example :
<form action="demo_form.asp" novalidate="novalidate">E-mail: <input type="email" name="user_email" /><input type="submit" /></form>
pattern Attribute• The pattern attribute specifies a pattern used to validate an
input field.• The pattern is a regular expression. • The pattern attribute works with the following <input>
types: text, search, url, telephone, email, and password• The example below shows a text field that can only contain
three letters (no numbers or special characters) :
Country code: <input type="text" name="country_code"pattern="[A-z]{3}" title="Three letter country code" />
placeholder Attribute• The placeholder attribute provides a hint that describes the
expected value of an input field.• The placeholder attribute works with the following <input>
types: text, search, url, telephone, email, and password• The hint is displayed in the input field when it is empty, and
disappears when the field gets focus.• Example :
<input type="search" name="user_search" placeholder="Search W3Schools" />
required Attribute• HTML5 form validation isn’t limited to the type of each field. • The required attribute specifies that an input field must be
filled out before submitting.• The required attribute works with the following <input>
types: text, search, url, telephone, email, password, date pickers, number, checkbox, radio, and file.
• Example :
Name: <input type="text" name="usr_name" required="required" />
Required Fields
<p>Website: <input type="url" name="website" required></p><style> [required] { border-color: #88a; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 3px rgba(0, 0, 255, .5); } :invalid { border-color: #e88; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(255, 0, 0, .8); }</style>
Video• HTML 5.0 provides a standard for showing video. Using
the <video> element we can easily embed video within our web page.
• The video formats the <video> element supports include the following : • MPG4 (with H.264 video codec and AAC audio
codec)• OGG (with Thedora video codec and Vorbis audio
codec)
Format• Until now, there has never been a standard for showing video on a
web page. Today, most videos are shown through a plugin (like flash). However, not all browsers have the same plugins. HTML5 specifies a standard way to include video, with the video element.
• Currently, there are 2 supported video formats for the video element:
Format Firefox 3.5 Opera 10.5 Chrome 3.0 IE 8 Safari 3.0
Ogg Yes Yes Yes No No
MPEG 4 No No Yes No Yes
Basic SyntaxBasic Syntax to Embed Video :
<video src="movie.ogg" controls="controls">*Content we place in between the tags will be displayed when the browser doesn't support displaying video
</video>
• We can use the width and height attributes in order to specify the size
• The control attribute is for adding the play, pause and volume controls
Basic SyntaxExample :
<h1>HTML 5 Playing Video Sample</h1>
<videosrc="http://example.com/video/example_video.ogg"controls="controls"width=“600"height=“280">
Browser does not support HTML 5.0
</video>
Basic Syntax• The video element allows multiple source elements.
Source elements can link to different video files. The browser will use the first recognized format :
<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls"> <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg" /> <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="movie.webm" type="video/webm" />Your browser does not support the video tag.</video>
Attribute• The HTML 5.0 supports the following attributes :
Attribute Value Description
audio muted Defining the default state of the the audio. Currently, only "muted" is allowed
autoplay autoplay If present, then the video will start playing as soon as it is ready
controls controls If present, controls will be displayed, such as a play button
height pixels Sets the height of the video player
loop loop If present, the video will start over again, every time it is finished
poster url Specifies the URL of an image representing the video
preload preload If present, the video will be loaded at page load, and ready to run. Ignored if "autoplay" is present
src url The URL of the video to play
width pixels Sets the width of the video player
Audio• The HTML 5.0 specification allows us playing sound
using the <audio> element.• The <audio> element can play sound files or an audio
stream.• The HTML 5.0 specification aims at supporting the
following sounds formats: MP3, WAV and Ogg Vorbis.
Format• Until now, there has never been a standard for playing audio on a
web page. Today, most audio are played through a plugin (like flash). However, not all browsers have the same plugins.
• Currently, there are 3 supported audio formats for the audio element:
Format Firefox 3.5 Opera 10.5 Chrome 3.0 IE 9 Safari 3.0
Ogg Vorbis Yes Yes Yes No No
MP3 No No Yes Yes Yes
Wav Yes Yes No No Yes
Basic SyntaxBasic Syntax to Embed Video :
<audio src="music.ogg" controls="controls">*Content we place in between the tags will be displayed when the browser doesn't support playing audio
</audio>
• The control attribute is for adding the play, pause and volume controls
Basic Syntax• The audio element allows multiple source elements.
Source elements can link to different audio files.• We can add the <source> child elements in between
the audio element tags. The browser will use the first supported format.
<audio controls="controls"><source src="mymusic.ogg" type="audio/ogg"><source src="mymusic.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
browser does not support html 5.0</audio>
Attribute• The HTML 5.0 supports the following attributes :
Attribute Value Description
autoplay autoplay Specifies that the audio will start playing as soon as it is ready.
controls controls Specifies that controls will be displayed, such as a play button.
loop loop Specifies that the audio will start playing again (looping) when it reaches the end
preload preloadSpecifies that the audio will be loaded at page load, and ready to run. Ignored if autoplay is present.
src url Specifies the URL of the audio to play
Media Events
Media Events
Canvas
• The HTML5 canvas element uses JavaScript to draw graphics on a web page.
• A canvas is a rectangular area, and you control every pixel of it.
• The canvas element has several methods for drawing paths, boxes, circles, characters, and adding images.
• 2D canvas acceleration uses the same GPU process infrastructure
Basic Syntax• Basic Syntax to create canvas :<canvas id="my_canvas" width="800" height="600"></canvas>
• Once the Canvas was created we can draw various graphics by calling various JavaScript methods on its context.
...<script type="text/javascript">
var c=document.getElementById("my_canvas");var context=c.getContext("2d");context.fillStyle="#FFAA00";context.fillRect(0,0,120,80);
</script>...
Basic Syntax• Example :
<html><head>
<title>Canvas Demo</title></head><body>
<canvas id="my_canvas" width="800" height="600"></canvas><script type="text/javascript">var c=document.getElementById("my_canvas");var context=c.getContext("2d");context.fillStyle="#FFAA00";context.fillRect(0,0,120,80);</script>
</body></html>
Using JavaScript• The canvas element has no drawing abilities of its own.
All drawing must be done inside a JavaScript :<script type="text/javascript">var c=document.getElementById("myCanvas");var cxt=c.getContext("2d");cxt.fillStyle="#FF0000";cxt.fillRect(0,0,150,75);</script>
• JavaScript uses the id to find the canvas element :var c=document.getElementById("myCanvas");
Using JavaScript, continued…• Then, create a context object :
var cxt=c.getContext("2d");
• The getContext("2d") object is a built-in HTML5 object, with many methods to draw paths, boxes, circles, characters, images and more.
• The next two lines draws a red rectangle:cxt.fillStyle="#FF0000";cxt.fillRect(0,0,150,75);
• The fillStyle method makes it red, and the fillRect method specifies the shape, position, and size.
Understanding Coordinates
• The fillRect method above had the parameters (0,0,150,75).
• This means: Draw a 150x75 rectangle on the canvas, starting at the top left corner (0,0).
• The canvas X and Y coordinates are used to position drawings on the canvas.
Attribute
• The HTML 5.0 supports the following attributes :
Attribute Value Description
height pixels Sets the height of the canvas
width pixels Sets the width of the canvas
Storage
• Local Storage is intended to be used for storing and retrieving data in html pages from the same domain.
• The data can be retrieved from all the windows in the same domain even if the browser is restarted.
• Session Storage is the other Web Storage option and the data is available only in the window it was stored in and is lost when the browser window is closed.
• Aims to be a replacement of the cookies- cookies are accessible from both client and server side (4k max)- storage is accessible only from client side (5 – 10 MB)
Storage
• In HTML5, the data is NOT passed on by every server request, but used ONLY when asked for. It is possible to store large amounts of data without affecting the website's performance.
• The data is stored in different areas for different websites, and a website can only access data stored by itself.
• HTML5 uses JavaScript to store and access the data.
The localStorage Object• The localStorage object stores the data with no time
limit.
• Example :
<script type="text/javascript">localStorage.lastname="Smith";document.write(localStorage.lastname);</script>
The localStorage Object• The following example counts the number of times a user
has visited a page :
<script type="text/javascript">if (localStorage.pagecount) { localStorage.pagecount=Number(localStorage.pagecount) +1; }else { localStorage.pagecount=1; }document.write("Visits "+ localStorage.pagecount + " time(s).");</script>
The sessionStorage Object• The sessionStorage object stores the data for one
session. The data is deleted when the user closes the browser window.
• Example :
<script type="text/javascript">sessionStorage.lastname="Smith";document.write(sessionStorage.lastname);</script>
The sessionStorage Object• The following example counts the number of times a user
has visited a page, in the current session :
<script type="text/javascript">if (sessionStorage.pagecount) { sessionStorage.pagecount=Number(sessionStorage.pagecount) +1; }else { sessionStorage.pagecount=1; }document.write("Visits "+sessionStorage.pagecount+" time(s) this session.");</script>
Other Local Storage, Web SQL Database
• Can store relational data locally in the browser
• Especially useful for offline apps (more later)
• Web SQL Database– a spec that brings SQL to the client side– specification is based around SQLite
• Show Example: TwitterLocalSQLdb
var db = openDatabase('mydb', '1.0', 'my first database', 2 * 1024 * 1024);db.transaction(function (tx) { // here be the transaction // do SQL magic here using the tx object});db.transaction(function (tx) { tx.executeSql('CREATE TABLE foo (id unique, text)');});tx.executeSql('INSERT INTO foo (id, text) VALUES (?, ?)', [id, userValue]);
Geolocation• Geolocation is the art of figuring out where you are in the world
and (optionally) sharing that information with people you trust.
• How? Chrome and Firefox use your IP and Google Location Services
if (Modernizr.geolocation) {initiate_geolocation();
}
function initiate_geolocation() {
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(handle_geolocation_query,handle_geo_errors); }
function handle_geo_errors(error) { }
function handle_geolocation_query(position){ //alert('Lat: ' + position.coords.latitude + // ' Lon: ' + position.coords.longitude); userPositionLong = position.coords.longitude;userPositionLat = position.coords.latitude;
}
Web Workers
• Web Workers provide a standard way for browsers to run JavaScript in the background.
• With web workers, you can spawn multiple “threads” that all run at the same time, more or less. (Think of how your computer can run multiple applications at the same time, and you’re most of the way there.)
• These “background threads” can do complex mathematical calculations, make network requests, or access local storage while the main web page responds to the user scrolling, clicking, or typing.
Web Sockets
• One of the cool new features of HTML5 is WebSockets, which let us talk to the server without using AJAX requests.
• Websockets can replace long-polling. This is an interesting concept; the client sends a request to the server – now, rather than the server responding with data it may not have, it essentially keeps the connection open until the fresh, up-to-date data is ready to be sent – the client next receives this, and sends another request.
• WebSockets is a technique for two-way communication over one (TCP) socket, a type of PUSH technology. At the moment, it’s still being standardized by the W3C; however, the latest versions of Chrome and Safari have support for WebSockets.
File / Hardware Access
• Native Drag & Drop• Desktop Drag-In (File API)– Drag files in from the desktop
• Desktop Drag-Out– Drag files out onto the desktop
• FileSystem APIs– Asynchronously write a file to a sandboxed file system
using JavaScript
• Geolocation• Device Orientation• Speech Input
Working with Files
• Using Files in Web Applications
Markup Elements
New elements in HTML 5:
Tag Description
<article> For external content, like text from a news-article, blog, forum, or any other content from an external source
<aside> For content aside from the content it is placed in. The aside content should be related to the surrounding content
<command> A button, or a radiobutton, or a checkbox
<details> For describing details about a document, or parts of a document
<summary> A caption, or summary, inside the details element
<figure> For grouping a section of stand-alone content, could be a video
<figcaption> The caption of the figure section
Markup Elements
more elements in HTML 5:
Tag Description
<footer>For a footer of a document or section, could include the name of the author, the date of the document, contact information, or copyright information
<header> For an introduction of a document or section, could include navigation
<hgroup>For a section of headings, using <h1> to <h6>, where the largest is the main heading of the section, and the others are sub-headings
<mark> For text that should be highlighted
<meter> For a measurement, used only if the maximum and minimum values are known
<nav> For a section of navigation
<progress> The state of a work in progress
Markup Elements
more elements in HTML 5:
Tag Description
<ruby> For ruby annotation (Chinese notes or characters)
<rt> For explanation of the ruby annotation
<rp> What to show browsers that do not support the ruby element
<section> For a section in a document. Such as chapters, headers, footers, or any other sections of the document
<time> For defining a time or a date, or both
<wbr> Word break. For defining a line-break opportunity.
Markup Elements
New media elements in HTML 5:
Canvas elements in HTML 5:
Tag Description
<audio> For multimedia content, sounds, music or other audio streams
<video> For video content, such as a movie clip or other video streams
<source> For media resources for media elements, defined inside video or audio elements
Tag Description
<canvas> For making graphics with a script
Markup Elements
New form elements in HTML 5:
Tag Description
<datalist> A list of options for input values
<keygen> Generate keys to authenticate users
<output> For different types of output, such as output written by a script
Markup Elements
New Input Type Attribute Values :
Tag Description
tel The input value is of type telephone number
search The input field is a search field
url The input value is a URL
email The input value is one or more email addresses
datetime The input value is a date and/or time
date The input value is a date
month The input value is a month
week The input value is a week
time The input value is of type time
datetime-local The input value is a local date/time
number The input value is a number
range The input value is a number in a given range
color The input value is a hexadecimal color, like #FF8800