HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices

About

HTML5 is the standard language of the Web, developed by W3C. For application developers and industry, HTML5 represents a set of features that people are able to rely on for years to come. HTML5 is supported on a wide variety of devices, lowering the cost of creating rich applications to reach users everywhere.

Whatever mobile phones, connected objects, game consoles, automobile dashboards, and devices that haven't even been considered yet, HTML5 helps write once and deploy anywhere!

In this course, you will learn all the HTML5 features to help create great Web sites and applications in a simplified but powerful way. HTML5 provides native support for video and audio without plug-ins, provides support for offline applications, for games with smooth interactive animations, and much more.

What you will learn

• Learn the simplified HTML5 elements
• Play with the audio and video elements
• Draw and animate fun Web graphics
• Discover the HTML5 forms features
• Test the basic APIs, such as Web storage and geolocation
• And most of all, practice coding techniques thanks to multiple interactive examples

Skills you learn

• Dashboard
• Animations
• HTML5
• Mobile Phones
• Web Pages

Syllabus

Week 1: HTML5 basics

• From HTML1.0 to HTML5
• Structural elements

Week 2: HTML5 multimedia

• Streaming multimedia content: the video and audio elements
• Subtitles and closed captions
• Webcam, microphone: the getUserMedia API

Week 3: HTML5 graphics

• Basics of HTML5 canvas
• Immediate drawing mode: rectangles, text, images, etc.
• Path drawing mode: lines, circles, arcs, curves, etc.
• Colors, gradients, patterns, shadows, etc.

Week 4: HTML5 animations

• Basic animation techniques
• Canvas and user interaction

Week 5: HTML5 forms

• Introduction to HTML5 forms
• Accessible forms
• Input types, forms attributes
• Form validation API

Week 6: HTML5 basic APIs

• Introduction to HTML5 APIs
• The Web Storage API
• The File API
• The Geolocation API

Auto Summary

"HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices" is an IT & Computer Science course on edX, focusing on HTML5 features for web and application development. Over 8 weeks, learners will explore creating rich, interactive applications supported on various devices. Ideal for those looking to enhance their HTML5 skills, the course is available with a professional subscription and targets an awareness level audience.