Dive Into HTML 5 TODO list -*- mode: org; -*-
....brief history of how HTML 5 came about
Installing an HTML 5-capable browser
hgroup, header, footer, section, aside, mark
datagrid, datalist, details Let’s Call It A Draw(ing Surface) simple shapes; complex paths transformations; compositing; shadows drawing images; pixel manipulation getting data back out of a <canvas> security model; same-origin restrictions reusable widget libraries (Thunderhead) ExCanvas: compatibility shim for IE pitch: multimedia without plugins patent issues around certain codecs Windows/Mac/Linux tools for encoding video in Ogg Theora and audio in Ogg Vorbis building a custom player UI network states; ready states; handling errors mv_embed: compatibility shim for IE select * from browser where 5 > 2 pitch: your browser (already) has a SQL database! synchronous database access asynchronous database access Gears vs. HTML 5 Web Storage WSPL: wrapper library to let you use either Gears or native Web Storage Thread the needle, thread the script pitch: background Javascript processing Gears vs. HTML 5 Web Workers the storage mutex (for thread-safe cookie access) pitch: turn off your network and use Gmail. Sync as soon as you reconnect. Case study: offline Gmail You are here (and so is everybody else) pitch: opt-in mechanism to tell web pages where you are in the world asking the user for their location obtaining “high accuracy” locations pitch: rich forms without scripting client-side validation with patterns Distributed extensibility