HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
5
Browser-based APIs
This chapter covers
Directly editing page content with
contentEditable
Simulating desktop-like interactions with the drag-and-drop API
Convenient access to semantic metadata with the microdata API
How to not break the Back button with the history API
Keeping web apps responsive with web workers
This chapter looks at
HTML5
application programming interfaces (
API
s)
that work “in browser”—that is,
API
s that work directly with loaded web
pages rather than accessing the network or web and relying on server
functionality.
To follow the examples in this chapter, you'll need to have a basic
understanding of JavaScript. Read appendix D first if you need
more help. Or, if you're more of a designer than a developer, skip
ahead to chapter 7, where we start to look in detail at CSS3.
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