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A Guide to Modern Web DevelopmentToday's web technologies are evolving at near-light speed, bringing the promise of a seamless Internet ever closer to reality. When users can browse the Web on a three-inch phone screen as easily as on a fifty-inch HDTV, what's a developer to do?Peter Gasston's The Modern Web will guide you through the latest and most important tools of device-agnostic web development, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. His plain-English explanations and practical examples emphasize the techniques, principles, and practices that you'll need to easily transcend individual browser quirks and stay relevant as these technologies are updated.Learn how to:Plan your content so that it displays fluidly across multiple devices Design websites to interact with devices using the most up-to-date APIs, including Geolocation, Orientation, and Web Storage Incorporate cross-platform audio and video without using troublesome plug-ins Make images and graphics scalable on high-resolution devices with SVG Use powerful HTML5 elements to design better formsTurn outdated websites into flexible, user-friendly ones that take full advantage of the unique capabilities of any device or browser.
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Peter has been a professional web developer for many years, starting at the height of the dot-com boom. He has worked freelance and permanent for agencies and corporations, for clients including Orange, Skype, Cisco Systems and the soccer club he passionately follows, Arsenal. He now works for digital agency Poke in Shoreditch, London.He specialises in front-end development, mostly HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and is a firm proponent of web standards and semantic markup. He keeps his own blog about web technologies, Broken Links, was a long-time writer at CSS3.info, and has written for Dev.Opera and the UK web magazine, .net. He has given talks at London's web development community meetings and other public events, and aims to do more of this in the future.Peter lives in London with his wife, Ana. He loves to read, anything from literature to history (especially natural history and evolution) and psychology, and is a big fan of independent comics and film. The Book of CSS3 is his first book.
