Hands-on with HTML APIs_ Harness the Power of HTML APIs - Peter Leow

The advent of HTML Living Standard, previously known as HTML5, has revolutionized the traditional web scene. Over the years, HTML specification has added a bag full of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) that cover a wide spectrum of functionality and features that power the future web browsers and mobile devices. This empowerment has brought about new possibilities and opportunities for the next generation of web applications that are more autonomous and can work offline, on multi-platforms, free of third party plug-ins and less reliant on server-side scripting. In the foreseeable future, it is not unimaginable that the web browser will replace our traditional metaphor of desktops on our computers, that of a web-based desktop.

In this book, you will dip into the HTML APIs grab bag and draw out several of them for discussion and exploration peppered with plenty of hands-on exercises, these include:

•Geolocation for finding and navigating your way on Earth.

•Drag and Drop for dragging and dropping UI elements on HTML page.

•Server-Sent Events for enabling one-way streaming of data from servers.

•Web Sockets for establishing full-duplex bi-directional communication between clients and servers.

•Web Workers for spawning JavaScript on background threads.

•Web Storage for inserting, updating, retrieving, and deletion of data on browsers.