HTML5 Comprehensive Guide

What is HTML5?
“Specification that defines the 5th major
revision of the core language of the
World Wide Web: HTML.”
World Wide Web Consortium

Who’s in charge?
WHATWGW3C
HTML WG
Browser
Vendors

Who’s in charge?
Ian Hickson
Editor of HTML5 specification

Standardisation
Editor`s Draft
First Public
Working Draft
Last Call
Candidate
Recommendation
Recommendation

State of HTML5
“So we opened a mailing list called the WHATWG to continue work
on Web Forms 2.0 in public, and later that year started a new draft
called Web Applications 1.0 into which we put many features aimed
at writing Web apps, including a new version of HTML that we
jokingly called HTML5…”
2004
Ian Hickson

State of HTML5
Early expectations
2012 – W3C Candidate Recommendation
W3C Recommendation
2020?

State of HTML5
Reality
2012 – W3C Candidate Recommendation
W3C Recommendation
2014

State of HTML5
Old browsers (Q1 2013)
More on:
www.html5test.com
~ 33%
IE 6-8
FF 3-3.6
OP 9x

State of HTML5
Mobile Platforms
Various degree of support in mobile operating systems.
iOS Android Window Phone BlackBerry

State of HTML5
jQuery 2.0
Drops support of legacy browsers

State of HTML5
“JQuery 2.0 now has more patches and
shims for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox than
for Internet Explorer.”
Dave Methvin
President, jQuery Foundation

State of HTML5
Web
Native
Classic
Web
Desktop
(PC)
RIA
“HTML5”
Web

State of HTML5
Already moved to HTML5

State of HTML5
“When I`m introspective about last few years I think the
biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too
much on HTML5 as opposed to native… because it just
wasn`t there. … We burned two years. It`s really painful.”
Mark Zuckerberg
SEO of Facebook, September 2012

Goals of HTML5
Native Multimedia
Programmatic Context
Enhanced Web Semantics
“Plug-in free” Development

Goals of HTML5
Adobe Flash
What is wrong with Adobe Flash?
Lot of security vulnerabilities
Low performance on older machines
Disallowed on mobile devices
Requires user to install separate plug-in

Goals of HTML5
Silverlight
What is wrong with Silverlight?
Tied to Windows
Requires user to install separate plug-in
Historical dislike of Microsoft

State of HTML5
Be pragmatic
Stability
Use what works
today
Granularity
Use what you need
Rationality
Web Standards not
always fit

State of HTML5
“And it`s not that HTML5 is bad. I`m actually, on long-term,
really excited about it. One of the things that`s interesting
is we actually have more people on a daily basis using
mobile Web Facebook than we have using our iOS and
Android apps combined. So mobile Web is a big thing for
us.”
Mark Zuckerberg
SEO of Facebook, September 2012

HTML5
How to take advantage of HTML5?
You already, DO!
How to enable HTML5 standards mode in browsers?
<!DOCTYPE html>
Place this on top of your document. No DTD!

HTML5
Tools
Visual Studio 2012 with Web
Essentials.
For .NET Developers
Expression Web
For non .NET Developers
Adobe Dreamweaver
Aptana Studio
JetBrains WebStorm

HTML5
Storage API`s
Web SQL IndexedDBWeb Storage
Local Storage Session Storage

Web Storage
Local Storage
Persistent store for up to 5 MiB of data
on users local machine (10 MiB for IE)
Essential details
Never transferred to server side (no-
cookies)
Accessible from JavaScript
Store for Key-Value pairs of strings
Important notes
Objects should be stringifyed prior to
saving to localStorage
It is allowed for browser to clear
localStorage without user permission
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specification

Web Storage
Session Storage
Non-Persistent store for up to 5 MiB of
data on users local machine (10 MiB for IE)
Essential details
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specification
Data accessible only during current
session (browser tabs)
Shares API with localStorage

Web StorageLocal Storage & Session Storage
setItem(key, value) - to set something to the browsers storage
API
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specification
getItem(key) – to get value from storage
removeItem(key) – to remove item from storage
clear() – to clear storage

Web SQLEssentials
What`s is Web SQL?
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specification
Web SQL Database is a web page API for storing data in databases that
can be queried using a variant of SQL
Full power of relational database on client side
Support for transactions
Specification based on SQLite
Synchronous and asynchronous API

Web SQL
What`s the state of Web SQL?
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specification
Deprecated! Working Group does not intend to maintain it further.
What`s wrong with Web SQL?
All interested implementers have used the same SQL backend (SQLite), but
W3C need multiple independent implementations to proceed along a
standardization path.
Essentials

Web SQL
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specification
openDatabase – opens or creates database
API
transaction – creates transaction
executeSql – used for executing SQL read and write statements

IndexedDBEssentials
What`s is IndexedDB?
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specification
IndexedDB is an API for client-side storage of significant amounts of
structured data
It`s an object store, but it`s not a relational database.
Support for transactions
Support for indexes
Synchronous and asynchronous API

IndexedDBEssentials
Specific terms of IndexedDB
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specification
Database comprises one or more object stores which hold the data
stored in the database
Object Store is the primary storage mechanism for storing data in a
database
Transaction is used to interact with the data in a database
Request represents one read or write operation

HTML5
Native multimedia
Multimedia
Video Audio

Native Multimedia
Essentials
Abstract MediaElement
Audio & Video has common API
First class citizen of DOM

Application Programming Interface
Native Multimedia
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specification
Events
Network-
related
Buffering
level
Playback control and
feature detection

Native Multimedia
Events
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specification
Loadstart Progress Suspend Abort
Error Emptied Stalled
Network-related
loadedmetadata loadeddata waiting
playing canplay canplaythrough
Buffering level

Native Multimedia
JavaScript & CSS
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specification
First-class DOM citizen and can be styles with CSS3
Exposes properties and functions to JavaScript
Properties Functions
playbackRate
volume
muted
networkState
readyState
currentTime play
pause
load

Native Multimedia
Format Support
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specification
“…regarding codecs for <video> and <audio> in HTML5, I
have reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no
suitable codec that all vendors are willing to implement
and ship.”
Ian Hickson

Audio
Essentials
Built in tag <audio> for embedding audio player
Natively support – require no plug-ins
Out of the box user interface
API for controlling audio playback
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specification

Audio
Essentials
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specification
Attributes of <audio> tag
Src - media content source
Preload - attribute is intended to provide a hint to the user agent about what the
author thinks will lead to the best user experience.
None – do not preload
Metadata – preload metadata only
Auto – let browser decide
Controls – specifies whether built-in controls visible or not
Loop - indicates that the media element should to seek back to the start
Crossorigin - indicates that audio file is being served from different origin

Audio
Essentials
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specification
Tools of the Devil
Loop - indicates that the media element should to seek back to the start
Autoplay - indicates that the media element should automatically start
playback once its fully loaded

Audio
Look & Feel
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specification
How does it looks like? What the markup is?
<audio controls="controls">
<source src="song.ogg" type="audio/ogg" />
<source src="song.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" />
Your browser does not support the audio element.
</audio>

Audio
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specification
play - to play audio
API
pause – to pause audio
canPlayType(type) – determines whether type supported by user agent
buffered – attribute that specifies the start and end time of the buffered
part of the file

Audio
Format Support
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specification
MP3 WebM OGG AAC

Video
Essentials
Built in tag <video> for embedding video player
Natively support – require no plug-ins
Out of the box user interface
API for controlling video playback
Go to full
specification

Video
Video formats
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specification
MPEG4
+
WebM
+
OGG
+

Video
Essentials
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specification
Attributes of <video> tag
Src - media content source
Preload - attribute is intended to provide a hint to the user agent about what the
author thinks will lead to the best user experience.
None – do not preload
Metadata – preload metadata only
Auto – let browser decide
Controls – specifies whether standard controls visible or not
Poster – image to show while no video data is available

Video
Look & Feel
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specification
How does it looks like? What the markup is?
<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls">
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

Video
Issues
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specification
Fullscreen playing
Live Streaming
Patchy browser support

Canvas
Essentials
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specification
HTML5 element that allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D
shapes and bitmaps
Immediate mode rendering
Rich API: 45 methods, 21 attributes
Future plans for 3D rendering

Canvas
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specification
API
Application Programming Interface
State
Transformations
Compositing
Color & Styles
Line caps/joins
Shadows
Rectangles
Path API
Text
Pixel manipulation
Focus management
Drawing images

Canvas
History
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specification
Developed as platform for
OSX Dashboard Widgets
in 2004

Canvas
Use cases
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specification
Data visualization

Canvas
Use cases
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specification
Animated graphics

Canvas
Use cases
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specification
Web Applications

Canvas
Use cases
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specification
Games

Canvas
Markup
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specification
What the markup is?
<canvas width=‘800’ height=‘600’>
Your browser doesn`t support canvas.
</canvas>

Canvas
Coordinate System
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specification
(0, 0) X
Y

Canvas
Rendering Context
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specification
2D Rendering
Context
Everything is drawn onto 2D
rendering context that is tied to
Canvas instance

Canvas
Rendering Context
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specification
Context instance can be preserved
and passed around the app
How to get context?
var canvas = document.getElementById(‘canvas’)
var context = canvas.getContext(‘2d’)

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
How to change color?
var canvas = document.getElementById(‘canvas’)
var context = canvas.getContext(‘2d’)
context.fillStyle = ‘black’;
context.strokeStyle = ‘white’;

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
fillRect - draws a rectangle using current fill style
Simple shapes
strokeRect – draws the outline of a rectangle using the current stroke style
clearRect – clears all pixels within the given rectangle

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
Complex shapes
A new patch should be created for each complex shape
Paths are a list of subpath
Subpaths are one or more points connected by straight or curved lines
Rendering context has reference to current active path

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
Complex shapes
beginPath – resets the current path
closePath – closes the current subpath and starts a new one
fill – fills the subpaths with the current fill style
stroke – outlines the subpaths with the current stroke style

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
Complex shapes
lineTo – draws a straight line from the previous point
rect – adds a new closed rectangular subpath
arc – adds a subpath along the circumference of the described circle,
withing the angles defined
arcTo – adds a subpath connecting two points by an arc of the defined
radius

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
Transformations
Affects shapes and paths drawn after the transformation
Shorthand methods for translation, scaling, rotation
Transformation matrices are allowed

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
Transformations
translate – moves coordinate system by specified offset
rotate – rotates coordinate system by specified angle
scale – scales coordinate system by specified factor
transform – multiplies current transformation matrix with specified one
setTransform – sets transformation matrix directly

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
ctx.shadowOffsetX = 10;
ctx.shadowOffsetY = 10;
ctx.shadowBlur = 10;
ctx.shadowColor = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)";
ctx.fillText(“Winning!”, 10, 25);
// All future operations will also have a shadow
ctx.strokeRect(0, 0, 115, 40);
All Canvas attributes are global – they effect all operations drawn next.

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
The current values of the following attributes:
strokeStyle, fillStyle, globalAlpha, lineWidth, lineCap,
lineJoin, miterLimit, shadowOffsetX, shadowOffsetY,
shadowBlur, shadowColor, globalCompositeOperation,
font, textAlign, textBaseline.
You can save and restore:
The current transformation matrix.
The current clipping region.

Canvas
State Management
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specification
ctx.save();
ctx.shadowOffsetX = 10;
ctx.shadowOffsetY = 10;
ctx.shadowBlur = 10;
ctx.shadowColor = "rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)";
ctx.fillText(“Winning!”, 10, 25);
ctx.restore();
// All future operations will NOT have a shadow
ctx.strokeRect(0, 0, 115, 40);
Use save() and restore() to scope the attribute

Canvas
Composition
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specification
Compositing it the control of transparency and layering of objects
Controlled by globalAlpha and globalCompositeOperation
attributes

Canvas
Composition
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specification

Canvas
Drawing Model
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specification
Firefox, Opera and Internet Explorer follow the drawing model as
described in the spec.
Safari and Chrome have a slightly different drawing model behavior.
DO: Check if you’re composition is impacted by this interoperability
issue.

Canvas
Performance
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specification
Not all operations were made equal. Some are more expensive than
others
Shadows, clipping and composition operations are more expensive as
they require an additional intermediate.
DON’T: Create thousands of small objects with clipping, shadows or
compositions effects.

Canvas
Security Model
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specification
Canvas allows reading and writing pixels to the screen
You can also save the Canvas to a file via toDataURL()
Canvas PNG File

Canvas also allows drawing cross-domain images/videos
However, it has built-in security protection against third-parties saving
cross-domain pixels
Canvas
Security Model
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specification
Canvas
PNG File

Canvas
Security Model
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specification
Canvas has a concept of origin-clean flag.
origin-clean is set false if a cross-domain IMG or VIDEO is used.
A SECURITY_ERR exception is raised, if one tries to save the
Canvas pixels if the Canvas origin-clean is false:
toDataURL()
getImageData()

Animation Frame API
Essentials
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specification
API for getting precise animation updates
User Agent schedules updates in sync with internal redraw routines
Automatic management of update time and low-power mode

Animation Frame API
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specification
requestAnimationFrame – requests repaint callback to be scheduled
API
cancelAnimationFrame – cancels repaint callback request

HTML5
Media Capture
User Media
API
HTML Media
Capture

HTML Media Capture
Essentials
Native media capture mechanism
Extends file input
Allows to capture audio, video and photo

HTML Media Capture
Markup
What the markup is?
<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="camera" />
<input type="file" accept="audio/*" capture="microphone" />
<input type="file" accept="video/*" capture="camcorder" />
Media format controlled by
accept attribute
Media type controlled by
capture attribute

User Media API
Essentials
API that allows to capture media streams
Designed to interoperate with related specs
Allows to capture audio, video and photo

User Media API
Essentials
High level abstraction for streaming data
Can be passed around to different APIs
Contains audio and video tracks
Media Stream
Media Stream Track
High level abstraction for media stream source

User Media API
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specification
getUserMedia - to start capturing media stream
API

HTML5
Audio Processing
Web Audio
API
Audio Data
API
JavaScript
DSP

JavaScript DSP
Essentials
Byte-level manipulations with encoded audio data
Getting audio data via XMLHttpRequest or File API
Requires knowledge of DSP and audio formats encoding
Extension: Firefox allows access to PCM data

Web Audio API
Why?
<audio> hides the steps of loading, decoding and playing
No standard way to access raw PCM data
No fine-grained timing
No concept of position and direction of sources and listeners
Hard to analyze and visualize data on the fly

Web Audio API
Essentials
High-level API for processing and synthesizing audio
Gives fine grained control over audio processing and playback

Web Audio API
Real-time processing
and synthesizing audio
Capabilities
An audio pipeline and routing system
for effects and filters

Web Audio API
Access to raw PCM data
Capabilities

Web Audio API
Precise scheduling of
audio playback
Capabilities

Web Audio API
Audio Context
Abstract representation of audio
signal graph and connections
between AudioNodes

Web Audio API
Audio Context
API
destination – audio node that represents actual hardware
sampleRate – the sample rate at which Audio Context handles audio
currentTime – time in seconds tied to hardware clock
listener – an audio listener that is used for 3D spatialization

Web Audio API
Audio Node
Build block of audio graph
Audio node represents
Source
Destination
Intermediate processing module
Set of predefined Audio Nodes as well as ScriptProcessorNode

Web Audio API
Audio Node
AudioDestinationNode AudioBufferSourceNode MediaElementAudioSourceNode
MediaStreamAudioSourceNode MediaStreamAudioDestinationNode ScriptProcessorNode Audio Effect Nodes

Web Audio API
Audio Buffer
Represents in-memory audio asset
Contains IEEE 32-bit linear PCM with a nominal range of -1 -> +1
Contains one or more channels
Typically expected that length of PCM data would be less than a minute
Long audio tracks can be served via MediaElementAudioSourceNode

HTML5
3D
WebGL
Image-based 3D
CSS3 3D
TransformsSoftware rendering
on Canvas

HTML5
Image-based 3D
Set of prerendered images
High degree of browser support
Terrific amount of data to load
No client side customizations

Image-based 3D
Image-based 3D
Fast image switches may cause flickering
Rendering to Canvas may give significant performance boost

HTML5
Software Rendering
Rendering and computations are made on CPU
Manual manipulations with Pixel and Vertex data
Canvas as rasterization surface

Software Rendering
Performance
Software rendering is inherently slow
Good enough for simple scenes
Mobile devices are still a concern

HTML5
CSS3 Transforms
Display-time transformations of any HTML content
transforms do not affect layout
3D Transforms
translate, scale, rotate, skew in X, Y & Z
perspective

CSS3 Transforms
Essentials
Rendering and computations are made on GPU
Applies to any DOM element
Declarative and programmatic control

HTML5
CSS Custom Shaders
User supplied program for GPU programming
Executes in parallel
Source of awesome visual effects
Programmed in GLSL

CSS Custom Shaders
Rendering Pipeline

CSS Custom Shaders
Types
Fragment
Shader
Vertex
Shader

CSS Custom Shaders
Fragment Shader
GPU program for pixel color manipulation
The result is a pixel color
Executes in parallel on GPU infrastructure
Currently there is no way to set via gl_FragColor

Fragment Shader
Sample
precision mediump float;
void main() {
float r = 1.0;
float g = 1.0;
float b = 1.0;
float a = 1.0;
css_ColorMatrix = mat4( r, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0,
0.0, g, 0.0, 0.0,
0.0, 0.0, b, 0.0,
0.0, 0.0, 0.0, a );
}

CSS Custom Shaders
Vertex Shader
Responsible for mesh deformations
The result is a vertex position
Executes in parallel on GPU infrastructure

Vertex Shader
Sample
attribute vec4 a_position;
uniform mat4 u_projectionMatrix;
void main() {
gl_Position = u_projectionMatrix * a_position;
}
Projection matrix is supplied by a
web browser.
a_position stores vertex position

CSS Custom Shaders
Syntax
#myelement {
filter: custom( vertex-shader
[ fragment-shader]
[,vertex-mesh]
[,params]);
}
How to apply shader?

CSS Custom Shaders
Vertex Creation
#myelement {
[ fragment-shader]
,4 5
[,params]);
}
How to apply shader?

CSS Custom Shaders
Uniforms
#myelement {
[ fragment-shader]
,4 5
, amount 0);
}
CSS
uniform float amount;
void main(){
}
Fragment Shader

WebGL
Essentials
It is a software library that extends the capability of the JavaScript
to allow it to generate 3D graphics
Uses canvas as rendering surface
Based on OpenGL ES 2.0

WebGL
Support
“We believe that WebGL will likely become an ongoing
source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities. In its current form,
WebGL is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a
security perspective.”
Microsoft
June 16, 2011

WebGL
Support
“I agree with Microsoft’s assessment that WebGL is a
severe security risk. The gfx driver culture is not the
culture of security.”
John Carmack
Co-founder of Id Software, June 2011

Typed Arrays
Essentials
Efficient way to pass data into API`s
C-like arrays
Memory can be passed directly to native API`s

Typed Arrays
Array Buffer
Abstract representation of binary data
Serves as a data-source for typed arrays
Integrated with other HTML API`s

Typed Arrays
Array Buffer View
Int8Array Uint8Array Int16Array Uint16Array Int32Array
Uint32Array Float32Array Float64Array Uint8ClampedArray

Typed Arrays
Data View
Simplifies manipulations with heterogeneous types
Supports big and little endian
Be careful with alignment

Typed Arrays
Interoperability
WebGL Canvas 2D File API
Web
Sockets
XHR2
Media
Source
Transferable objects

Same Origin Policy
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specification
Security
Browser-level Firewall
Prohibits sending security sensitive information to foreign locations
Prohibits read of resources from foreign origin
Primary security barrier against XSS and Cookie stealing attacks
What is same origin policy?

Same Origin Policy
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specification
Security
What origins are foreign?
http://www.example.com
Same protocol and host but different port
http://www.example.com:81
Different protocol
https://www.example.com
Different host
http://en.example.com

Web Messaging
Essentials
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specification
Mechanism for cross-document communication
Support for cross-origin communication
API for exchanging plain text messages and structured data
What is Web Messaging?

Web Messaging
Communication
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specification
Window
object
Message
Channel

Web Messaging
Essentials
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specification
The end of iframe hacks!

Web Messaging
API
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specification
postMessage() – to post message to window
Message event – event raised when new message arrived

Web Workers
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specification
JavaScript is inherently single threaded
Asynchronous through single message loop
No concurrency, no thread synchronization
Motivation

Web Workers
Issue
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specification
“[JavaScript] that executes in whole seconds is probably
doing something wrong...”
Brendan Eich
Creator of JavaScript,
Mozilla Foundation

Web Workers
Effect
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specification

Web Workers
Old-school solutions
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specification
Partition
work with
timers
Offload
work to
server

Web Workers
Essentials
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specification
JavaScript native ‘threading’ mechanism
True parallelism
Designed to be long-lived
High startup cost performance and memory cost
What are Web Workers?

Web Workers
Essentials
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specification
Loaded from separate file or Blob
Communication with parent script through messages and events
Can be terminated from inside and outside
Due to their multi-threaded behavior, web workers only has access to a
subset of DOM and BOM features
How it works?

Web Workers
Scope
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specification
The navigator object
The location object (read-only)
XMLHttpRequest
setTimeout(), setInterval()
The application cache
Importing external scripts using the importScripts() method
Spawning other Web Workers
Features Available to Workers

Web Workers
Scope
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specification
DOM and BOM
window object
document object
parent object
Features Unavailable to Workers

Web Workers
Types
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specification
Dedicated Shared

Web Workers
Transferable Objects
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specification
Structured data can be passed without copying
Huge performance win
Supported structured objects:
ArrayBuffer
MessagePort
CanvasProxy

Web Workers
Transferable Objects
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specification

HTML5
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specification
Real-time Communications
HTTP protocol has one request – one resource semantics
No built-in mechanism for Push Notifications
Semi-duplex communications
Overhead of HTTP headers

Real-time
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specification
Use cases
Live feeds

Real-time
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specification
Use cases
Multiplayer games

Real-time
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specification
Use cases
Live sync applications

Real-time
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specification
Workarounds
Polling Comet

Real-time
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specification
Polling
Periodic HTTP requests
High server workload
High latency
High degree of support across different browsers

Polling
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specification
Interaction diagram

Polling
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specification
Network throughput

Real-time
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specification
Comet
Periodic long-lived HTTP requests
Reduced traffic
Reduced server workload
Overhead of HTTP headers
Possible difficulties with proxies and load balancers

Comet
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specification
Interaction diagram

Comet
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specification
Types
Long
polling
HTTP
Streaming

Web Sockets
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specification
Essentials
Full-duplex socket connection
Web Socket protocol v13 (RFC 6455) instead of HTTP
Uses HTTP for connection establishment
Low-latency client-server communication technology

Web Sockets
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specification
Connection Establishment
Runs via port 80/443 to simplify firewalls traversal
Pseudo schemes: ws, wss
Connection established by “upgrading” from HTTP to WebSocket
protocol

Web Sockets
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specification
Opening handshake
GET /chat HTTP/1.1
Host: server.example.com
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Key: dGhlIHNhbXBsZSBub25jZQ==
Origin: http://example.com
Sec-WebSocket-Protocol: chat, superchat
Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13
Client sends GET or CONNECT
request to Web Socket endpoint
Upgrade header indicates willing
to upgrade connection from
HTTP to WebSocket

Web Sockets
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specification
Opening handshake
HTTP/1.1 101 Switching Protocols
Upgrade: websocket
Connection: Upgrade
Sec-WebSocket-Accept: s3pPLMBiTxaQ9kYGzzhZRbK+xOo=
Server responds with 101 status
code and connection upgrade
header
From now on Web Socket
protocol will be used instead of
HTTP

Web Sockets
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specification
API
var connection = new WebSocket('ws://html5rocks.websocket.org/echo');
Connection
Communication
// When the connection is open, send some data to the
server
connection.onopen = function () {
// Send the message 'Ping' to the server
connection.send('Ping');
};
// Log errors
connection.onerror = function (error) {
// Log messages from the server
console.log('WebSocket Error ' + error);
};
connection.onmessage = function (e) {
console.log('Server: ' + e.data);
};

Server-sent Events
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specification
Essentials
Support for auto reconnect
Support for event ids
Requires Content-Type: text/event-stream
Browser built-in long polling mechanism

Server-sent Events
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specification
Essentials
data: This is the first message.
data: This is the second message, it
data: has two lines.
data: This is the third message.
Response
event: add
data: 73857293
event: remove
data: 2153
event: add
data: 113411
Response with named Events

XHR Level 2
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specification
Essentials
What is XHR?
API for sending HTTP and HTTPS requests directly to Web Server
Supports plain text and structured response formats
Interaction without page refresh
Basement of AJAX

XHR Level 2
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specification
Interaction Model
AJAX
JavaScript
Document
Object
Model
XHR
Asynchronous
Web calls
DHTML
manipulations

XHR Level 2
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specification
Security
Strong security concerns
Same origin policy
Cross-origin resource
sharing policy

XHR Level 2
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specification
Security
Cross-origin communication scenarios
JSONP CORS
Blind
Proxies
Web
Messaging
Iframe
hacks
HTTP
forgery

XHR Level 2
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specification
Security
Way for a web server to allow its resources to be accessed by a web page
from a different domain
Requires server & client side support
Server side decides which origins are allowed
HTTP header based negotiation
What is cross-origin resource sharing?

XHR Level 2
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specification
Security

XHR Level 2
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specification
Security
Request
GET http://photos.contoso.com/albums HTTP/1.1
Origin: http://www.contoso.com
Origin header specifies that this is
CORS aware request.
Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.contoso.com
Server respond with special header
that allows browser to consume such
response

XHR Level 2
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specification
Security
Request
OPTIONS http://photos.contoso.com/albums HTTP/1.1
Origin: http://www.contoso.com
Access-Control-Request-Method: PUT
In case of non-safe methods web
browser should send preflight request
prior to sending actual request
Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://www.contoso.com
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: PUT
Server respond with special header
that allows browser to make actual
request

XHR Level 2
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specification
Features
Cross-origin
requests
Uploading
progress
events
Uploading
downloading
structured
data

XHR Level 2
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specification
Features
Structured data
Allows to get resources as structured object
Allows to post data as structured object
Controlled via responseType property
New response property to consume resource in structured format

XHR Level 2
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specification
Features
Structured formats (upload)
ArrayBuffer – generic fixed-length binary data buffer
FormData – object based representation of form fields
Blob – url accessible container for binary data
Document
DOMString – plain text response

XHR Level 2
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specification
Features
Structured formats (download)
arraybuffer – generic fixed-length binary data buffer
blob – url accessible container for binary data
document
text – plain text response
json – json string converted into object

XHR Level 2
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specification
Features
Structured data var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('GET', '/path/to/image.png', true);
xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';
xhr.onload = function(e) {
var uInt8Array = new Uint8Array(this.response);
var byte3 = uInt8Array[4]; // byte at offset 4 ...
};
xhr.send();
GET example

Geolocation
Essentials
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specification
Mechanism for determining user geographic coordinates
Available on desktop and mobile devices
Uses GPS, A-GPS, Wi-Fi hotspots or IP address range to determine current
coordinates
Easy to use JavaScript API
Strong security concerns
What is Geolocation?

Geolocation
API
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specification
Main object – navigator.geolocation
getCurrentPosition – gets current position & speed (if possible)
watchPosition – track position changes
clearWatch – stop tracking position changes

Device Orientation
Essentials
Mechanism for determining Euler`s angles (rotation around X,Y, Z)
Supported on broad variety of mobile devices
What is device orientation?
The deviceorientation event with orientation data passed along
The devicemotion event with orientation and acceleration data
passed along

Application Cache
Essentials
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specification
Software storage feature which provides the ability to access a web
application even without a network
Controlled by a plain text file called a cache manifest
Can be managed by JavaScript API
What is Web Application Cache?

Application Cache
Manifest file
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specification
Contains a list of resources to be stored for use when there is no network
connectivity
Defines conditions for caching
Consist of sections
CACHE – a list of explicit urls to request and store
FALLBACK - What to do when an offline user attempts to
access an uncached file
NETWORK – Which resources are available only when online

Application Cache
Manifest file
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specification
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html manifest="/cache.appcache">
<body> … </body>
</html>
Page markup
CACHE MANIFEST
# This is a comment
CACHE:
/css/screen.css
/css/offline.css
/js/screen.js
/img/logo.png
http://example.com/css/styles.css
FALLBACK:
/ /offline.html
NETWORK:
*
Manifest file

Graphics Features
Transparency
color specification with alpha, opacity property
Round corners
border-radius
Shadows
box-shadow, text-shadow
Background gradients
linear, radial
Typography
Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts

2D & 3D Transforms
Display-time transformations of any HTML content
transforms do not affect layout
2D Transforms
translate, scale, rotate, skew
3D Transforms
translate, scale, rotate, skew in X, Y & Z
perspective

Animations & Transitions
Transitions
smooth animation of CSS properties from old to new value
can be used with CSS pseudo-classes such as :hover
Animations
keyframe-based definition of a set of CSS property changes
allows richer animations than CSS Transitions
event model allows complex use in combination with script

Animations & Transitions
#id_of_element {
-webkit-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-moz-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-o-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
-ms-transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
transition: all 1s ease-in-out;
}
Transition
@keyframes resize {
0% { padding: 0; }
50% {
padding: 0 20px;
background-color:rgba(255,0,0,0.2);
}
100% {
padding: 0 100px;
background-color:rgba(255,0,0,0.9);
}
}
#box {
animation-name: resize;
animation-duration: 1s;
animation-iteration-count: 4;
animation-direction: alternate;
animation-timing-function: ease-in-out; }
Animation

New Tags
Semantic Input types Multimedia Other

New Tags
<article>
Specifies independent, self-contained content, could be a news-article,
blog post, forum post, or other articles which can be distributed
independently from the rest of the site.
<aside>
For content aside from the content it is placed in. The aside content
should be related to the surrounding content
<bdi>
For text that should not be bound to the text-direction of its parent
elements
<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
<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
<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.

Semantic Markup
div=”header”
div=”nav”
div=”footer”
div=”article” div=”sidebar”
div
HTML4
XHTML4

Semantic Markup
<header>
<nav>
<footer>
<article> <aside>
<section>
HTML5
XHTML5

Input Types
13 new input types
Built-in client-side validation
Poor support in desktop browsers
See browser compatibility
information

Input Types
search tel url email datetime
date month week time
datetime-
local
number range color

HTML5
Feature detection
Never use navigator.userAgent browser detection hack
Never use conditional comment in Internet Explorer
Use feature detecting instead of browser detection when possible
Consider graceful fallback
Use Modernizr

Feature detection
Modernizr
Modernizr is a small JavaScript Library that detects the availability
of native implementations for next-generation web technologies
What is Modernizr?
Why Modernizr?
Easy to use
Powerfull feature detection library

Feature detection
Modernizr
Modernizr does its “magic” by creating an element, setting a specific
style instruction on that element and then immediately retrieving it
How it works?
Feature detection results available to developer via JavaScript
Modernizr object and classes applied to HTML DOM element

Feature detection
Modernizr
How it looks like?
/* In your CSS: */
.no-audio #music {
display: none; /* Don't show Audio options */
}
.audio #music button {
/* Style the Play and Pause buttons nicely */
}

<div id="music">
<audio>
<source src="audio.ogg" />
<source src="audio.mp3" />
</audio>
<button id="play">Play</button>
<button id="pause">Pause</button>
</div>

Links
Useful HTML5 content
http://www.html5rocks.com
HTML5 news, demos, presentations
http://www.html5doctor.com
Lot of HTML5 tutorials, articles
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/h
ands-on-css3/
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