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HTML5 Coding Essentials and Best Practices

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) via edX

Overview

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.

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

Taught by

Michel Buffa

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4.7 rating at edX based on 7 ratings

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  • Anonymous
    This is very good course. It goes into enough details to be interesting and useful. It covers a lot of ground. It doesn't waist time to introduce HTML. It only talks about what's new in HTML5 or how old HTML feature has changed by HTML5. Quizzes are too easy and labs are optional but if you do labs you'll learn a lot.
  • It was much more text-oriented course, rather than classical video one. The assignments were probably a bit too easy, and answers sometimes obvious. The course seemed a bit too rushed for 6 weeks, and could function better if it was stretched to 8-1…
  • Anonymous
    Beginnings are very important. A bad start can interupt you in your tracks and divert your attention elsewhere, perhaps never to return. However, a good beginning catches your interest, and encourages you to go further and deeper. This HTML5 and CSS3 course explicitly talks about the basics and complex parts of Responsive Web Design using HTML5 and CSS3. Learning through this HTML5 and CSS3 course is an easy, effective and economical option. This course undoubtedly fit to all of my needs. Finding something this informative over the internet is very difficult. This course has got a practical https://skillscourses.org/Responsive-Web-Design-with-HTML5-and-CSS3.html through relevant examples.
  • Anonymous
    This HTML5 and CSS3 course explicitly talks about the basics and complex parts of Responsive Web Design using HTML5 and CSS3. Learning through this HTML5 and CSS3 course is an easy, effective and economical option. This course undoubtedly fit to all of my needs. Finding something this informative over the internet is very difficult. This course has got a practical approach through relevant examples.
  • Anonymous
    If you don't know nothing or you know little, this curse is great for you.
    - W3C
    - best practices
    - step to step to create and improve yours pages
    the more new for HTML5!!!
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