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HTML5 is the latest and most enhanced version of HTML. Technically, HTML is not a
programming language, but rather a markup language. This tutorial gives very good
understanding on HTML5.

HTML5 Overview
HTML5 is the next major revision of the HTML standard superseding HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, and
XHTML 1.1. HTML5 is a standard for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web.

HTML5 is a cooperation between the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Web Hypertext
Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG).

The new standard incorporates features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been
previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight,
and Google Gears.

Browser Support:
The latest versions of Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera all support many
HTML5 features and Internet Explorer 9.0 will also have support for some HTML5 functionality.

The mobile web browsers that come pre-installed on iPhones, iPads, and Android phones all

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have excellent support for HTML5.

New Features:
HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that helps in building a modern
websites. Following are great features introduced in HTML5.

 New Semantic Elements: These are like <header>, <footer>, and <section>.
 Forms 2.0: Improvements to HTML web forms where new attributes have been
introduced for <input> tag.
 Persistent Local Storage: To achieve without resorting to third-party plugins.
 WebSocket : A a next-generation bidirectional communication technology for web
applications.
 Server-Sent Events: HTML5 introduces events which flow from web server to the web
browsers and they are called Server-Sent Events (SSE).
 Canvas: This supports a two-dimensional drawing surface that you can program with
JavaScript.
 Audio & Video: You can embed audio or video on your web pages without resorting to
third-party plugins.
 Geolocation: Now visitors can choose to share their physical location with your web
application.
 Microdata: This lets you create your own vocabularies beyond HTML5 and extend your
web pages with custom semantics.
 Drag and drop: Drag and drop the items from one location to another location on a
the same webpage.

Backward Compatibility
HTML5 is designed, as much as possible, to be backward compatible with existing web browsers.
New features build on existing features and allow you to provide fallback content for older
browsers.

It is suggested to detect support for individual HTML5 features using a few lines of JavaScript.

If you are not familiar with any previous version of HTML, I would recommend to go through our
HTML Tutorial before you explore further concepts of HTM5.

HTML5 Syntax
The HTML 5 language has a "custom" HTML syntax that is compatible with HTML 4 and XHTML1
documents published on the Web, but is not compatible with the more esoteric SGML features of
HTML 4.

HTML 5 does not have the same syntax rules as XHTML where we needed lower case tag
names, quoting our attributes,an attribute had to have a value and to close all empty elements.

But HTML5 is coming with lots of flexibility and would support the followings:

 Uppercase tag names.
 Quotes are optional for attributes.
 Attribute values are optional.
 Closing empty elements are optional.

The DOCTYPE:
DOCTYPEs in older versions of HTML were longer because the HTML language was SGML based

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and therefore required a reference to a DTD.

HTML 5 authors would use simple syntax to specify DOCTYPE as follows:

<!DOCTYPE html>

All the above syntax is case-insensitive.

Character Encoding:
HTML 5 authors can use simple syntax to specify Character Encoding as follows:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

All the above syntax is case-insensitive.

The <script> tag:
It's common practice to add a type attribute with a value of "text/javascript" to script elements
as follows:

<script type="text/javascript" src="scriptfile.js"></script>

HTML 5 removes extra information required and you can use simply following syntax:

<script src="scriptfile.js"></script>

The <link> tag:
So far you were writing <link> as follows:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylefile.css">

HTML 5 removes extra information required and you can use simply following syntax:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="stylefile.css">

HTML5 Elements:
HTML5 elements are marked up using start tags and end tags. Tags are delimited using angle
brackets with the tag name in between.

The difference between start tags and end tags is that the latter includes a slash before the tag
name.

Following is the example of an HTML5 element:

<p>...</p>

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HTML5 tag names are case insensitive and may be written in all uppercase or mixed case,
although the most common convention is to stick with lowercase.

Most of the elements contain some content like <p>...</p> contains a paragraph. Some
elements, however, are forbidden from containing any content at all and these are known as
void elements. For example, br, hr, link and meta etc.

HTML5 Attributes:
Elements may contain attributes that are used to set various properties of an element.

Some attributes are defined globally and can be used on any element, while others are defined
for specific elements only. All attributes have a name and a value and look like as shown below
in the example.

Following is the example of an HTML5 attributes which illustrates how to mark up a div element
with an attribute named class using a value of "example":

<div class="example">...</div>

Attributes may only be specified within start tags and must never be used in end tags.

HTML5 attributes are case insensitive and may be written in all uppercase or mixed case,

HTML5 Document:
The following tags have been introduced for better structure:

 section: This tag represents a generic document or application section. It can be used
together with h1-h6 to indicate the document structure.
 article: This tag represents an independent piece of content of a document, such as a
blog entry or newspaper article.
 aside: This tag represents a piece of content that is only slightly related to the rest of
the page.
 header: This tag represents the header of a section.
 footer: This tag represents a footer for a section and can contain information about the
author, copyright information, et cetera.
 nav: This tag represents a section of the document intended for navigation.
 dialog: This tag can be used to mark up a conversation.
 figure: This tag can be used to associate a caption together with some embedded
content, such as a graphic or video.

The markup for an HTM 5 document would look like the following:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>...</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>...</header>
<nav>...</nav>

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<article>
<section>
...
</section>
</article>
<aside>...</aside>
<footer>...</footer>
</body>

HTML5 Attributes
As explained in previous chapter, elements may contain attributes that are used to set various
properties of an element.

Some attributes are defined globally and can be used on any element, while others are defined
for specific elements only. All attributes have a name and a value and look like as shown below
in the example.

Following is the example of an HTML5 attributes which illustrates how to mark up a div element
with an attribute named class using a value of "example":

<div class="example">...</div>

Attributes may only be specified within start tags and must never be used in end tags.

HTML5 attributes are case insensitive and may be written in all uppercase or mixed case,

Standard Attributes:
The attributes listed below are supported by almost all the HTML 5 tags.

Attribute Options Function

accesskey User Defined Specifies a keyboard shortcut to access an element.

align right, left, center Horizontally aligns tags

background URL Places an background image behind an element

bgcolor numeric, hexidecimal, Places a background color behind an element
RGB values

class User Defined Classifies an element for use with Cascading Style
Sheets.

contenteditable true, false Specifies if the user can edit the element's content or
not.

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contextmenu Menu id Specifies the context menu for an element.

data-XXXX User Defined Custom attributes. Authors of a HTML document can
define their own attributes. Must start with "data-".

draggable true,false, auto Specifies whether or not a user is allowed to drag an
element.

height Numeric Value Specifies the height of tables, images, or table cells.

hidden hidden Specifies whether element should be visible or not.

id User Defined Names an element for use with Cascading Style
Sheets.

item List of elements Used to group elements.

itemprop List of items Used to group items.

spellcheck true, false Specifies if the element must have it's spelling or
grammar checked.

style CSS Style sheet Specifies an inline style for an element.

subject User define id Specifies the element's corresponding item.

tabindex Tab number Specifies the tab order of an element.

title User Defined "Pop-up" title for your elements.

valign top, middle, bottom Vertically aligns tags within an HTML element.

width Numeric Value Specifies the width of tables, images, or table cells.

For a complete list of HTML5 Tags and related attributes please check reference to HTML5 Tags.

Custom Attributes:
A new feature being introduced in HTML 5 is the addition of custom data attributes.

A custom data attribute starts with data- and would be named based on your requirement.
Following is the simple example:

<div class="example" data-subject="physics" data-level="complex">
...
</div>

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The above will be perfectly valid HTML5 with two custom attributes called data-subject and
data-level. You would be able to get the values of these attributes using JavaScript APIs or CSS
in similar way as you get for standard attributes.

HTML5 Events
When a user visit your website, they do things like click on text and images and given links,
hover over things etc. These are examples of what JavaScript calls events.

We can write our event handlers in Javascript or vbscript and you can specify these event
handlers as a value of event tag attribute. The HTML5 specification defines various event
attributes as listed below:

There are following attributes which can be used to trigger any javascript or vbscript code
given as value, when there is any event occurs for any HTM5 element.

We would cover element specific events while discussing those elements in detail in subsequent
chapters.

Attribute Value Description

offline script Triggers when the document goes offline

onabort script Triggers on an abort event

onafterprint script Triggers after the document is printed

onbeforeonload script Triggers before the document loads

onbeforeprint script Triggers before the document is printed

onblur script Triggers when the window loses focus

oncanplay script Triggers when media can start play, but might has to
stop for buffering

oncanplaythrough script Triggers when media can be played to the end, without
stopping for buffering

onchange script Triggers when an element changes

onclick script Triggers on a mouse click

oncontextmenu script Triggers when a context menu is triggered

ondblclick script Triggers on a mouse double-click

ondrag script Triggers when an element is dragged

ondragend script Triggers at the end of a drag operation

ondragenter script Triggers when an element has been dragged to a valid
drop target

ondragleave script Triggers when an element leaves a valid drop target

ondragover script Triggers when an element is being dragged over a valid
drop target

ondragstart script Triggers at the start of a drag operation

ondrop script Triggers when dragged element is being dropped

ondurationchange script Triggers when the length of the media is changed

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onemptied script Triggers when a media resource element suddenly
becomes empty.

onended script Triggers when media has reach the end

onerror script Triggers when an error occur

onfocus script Triggers when the window gets focus

onformchange script Triggers when a form changes

onforminput script Triggers when a form gets user input

onhaschange script Triggers when the document has change

oninput script Triggers when an element gets user input

oninvalid script Triggers when an element is invalid

onkeydown script Triggers when a key is pressed

onkeypress script Triggers when a key is pressed and released

onkeyup script Triggers when a key is released

onload script Triggers when the document loads

onloadeddata script Triggers when media data is loaded

onloadedmetadata script Triggers when the duration and other media data of a
media element is loaded

onloadstart script Triggers when the browser starts to load the media data

onmessage script Triggers when the message is triggered

onmousedown script Triggers when a mouse button is pressed

onmousemove script Triggers when the mouse pointer moves

onmouseout script Triggers when the mouse pointer moves out of an
element

onmouseover script Triggers when the mouse pointer moves over an element

onmouseup script Triggers when a mouse button is released

onmousewheel script Triggers when the mouse wheel is being rotated

onoffline script Triggers when the document goes offline

onoine script Triggers when the document comes online

ononline script Triggers when the document comes online

onpagehide script Triggers when the window is hidden

onpageshow script Triggers when the window becomes visible

onpause script Triggers when media data is paused

onplay script Triggers when media data is going to start playing

onplaying script Triggers when media data has start playing

onpopstate script Triggers when the window's history changes

onprogress script Triggers when the browser is fetching the media data

onratechange script Triggers when the media data's playing rate has changed

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onreadystatechange script Triggers when the ready-state changes

onredo script Triggers when the document performs a redo

onresize script Triggers when the window is resized

onscroll script Triggers when an element's scrollbar is being scrolled

onseeked script Triggers when a media element's seeking attribute is no
longer true, and the seeking has ended

onseeking script Triggers when a media element's seeking attribute is
true, and the seeking has begun

onselect script Triggers when an element is selected

onstalled script Triggers when there is an error in fetching media data

onstorage script Triggers when a document loads

onsubmit script Triggers when a form is submitted

onsuspend script Triggers when the browser has been fetching media
data, but stopped before the entire media file was
fetched

ontimeupdate script Triggers when media changes its playing position

onundo script Triggers when a document performs an undo

onunload script Triggers when the user leaves the document

onvolumechange script Triggers when media changes the volume, also when
volume is set to "mute"

onwaiting script Triggers when media has stopped playing, but is
expected to resume

HTML5 Web Forms 2.0
Web Forms 2.0 is an extension to the forms features found in HTML4. Form elements and
attributes in HTML5 provide a greater degree of semantic mark-up than HTML4 and remove a
great deal of the need for tedious scripting and styling that was required in HTML4.

The <input> element in HTML4
HTML4 input elements use the type attribute to specify the data type.HTML4 provides following
types:

Type Description

text A free-form text field, nominally free of line breaks.

password A free-form text field for sensitive information, nominally free of line
breaks.

checkbox A set of zero or more values from a predefined list.

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radio An enumerated value.

submit A free form of button initiates form submission.

file An arbitrary file with a MIME type and optionally a file name.

image A coordinate, relative to a particular image's size, with the extra
semantic that it must be the last value selected and initiates form
submission.

hidden An arbitrary string that is not normally displayed to the user.

select An enumerated value, much like the radio type.

textarea A free-form text field, nominally with no line break restrictions.

button A free form of button which can initiates any event related to button.

Following is the simple example of using labels, radio buttons, and submit buttons:

...
<form action="http://example.com/cgiscript.pl" method="post">
<p>
<label for="firstname">first name: </label>
<input type="text" id="firstname"><br />
<label for="lastname">last name: </label>
<input type="text" id="lastname"><br />
<label for="email">email: </label>
<input type="text" id="email"><br>
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="male"> Male<br>
<input type="radio" name="sex" value="female"> Female<br>
<input type="submit" value="send"> <input type="reset">
</p>
</form>
...

The <input> element in HTML5
Apart from the above mentioned attributes, HTML5 input elements introduced sevral new values
for the type attribute. These are listed below.

NOTE: Try all the following example using latest version of Opera browser.

Type Description

datetime A date and time (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, fractions of a
second) encoded according to ISO 8601 with the time zone set to UTC.

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datetime-local A date and time (year, month, day, hour, minute, second, fractions of a
second) encoded according to ISO 8601, with no time zone information.

date A date (year, month, day) encoded according to ISO 8601.

month A date consisting of a year and a month encoded according to ISO
8601.

week A date consisting of a year and a week number encoded according to
ISO 8601.

time A time (hour, minute, seconds, fractional seconds) encoded according
to ISO 8601.

number This accepts only numerical value. The step attribute specifies the
precision, defaulting to 1.

range The range type is used for input fields that should contain a value from
a range of numbers.

email This accepts only email value. This type is used for input fields that
should contain an e-mail address. If you try to submit a simple text, it
forces to enter only email address in email@example.com format.

url This accepts only URL value. This type is used for input fields that
should contain a URL address. If you try to submit a simple text, it
forces to enter only URL address either in http://www.example.com
format or in http://example.com format.

The <output> element
HTML5 introduced a new element <output> which is used to represent the result of different
types of output, such as output written by a script.

You can use the for attribute to specify a relationship between the output element and other
elements in the document that affected the calculation (for example, as inputs or parameters).
The value of the for attribute is a space-separated list of IDs of other elements.

The placeholder attribute
HTML5 introduced a new attribute called placeholder. This attribute on <input> and
<textarea> elements provides a hint to the user of what can be entered in the field. The
placeholder text must not contain carriage returns or line-feeds.

Here is the simple syntax for placeholder attribute:

<input type="text" name="search" placeholder="search the web"/>

This attribute is supported by latest versions of Mozilla, Safari and Crome browsers only.

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The autofocus attribute
This is a simple one-step pattern, easily programmed in JavaScript at the time of document
load, automatically focus one particular form field.

HTML5 introduced a new attribute called autofocus which would be used as follows:

<input type="text" name="search" autofocus/>


The required attribute
Now you do not need to have javascript for client side validations like empty text box would
never be submitted because HTML5 introduced a new attribute called required which would be
used as follows and would insist to have a value:

<input type="text" name="search" required/>


HTML5 – SVG
SVG stands for Scalable Vector Graphics and it is a language for describing 2D-graphics and
graphical applications in XML and the XML is then rendered by an SVG viewer.

SVG is mostly useful for vector type diagrams like Pie charts, Two-dimensional graphs in an X,Y
coordinate system etc.

SVG became a W3C Recommendation 14. January 2003 and you can check latest version of
SVG specification at SVG Specification.

Viewing SVG Files:
Most of the web browsers can display SVG just like they can display PNG, GIF, and JPG. Internet
Explorer users may have to install the Adobe SVG Viewer to be able to view SVG in the browser.

Embeding SVG in HTML5
HTML5 allows embeding SVG directly using <svg>...</svg> tag which has following simple
syntax:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
...
</svg>

Firefox 3.7 has also introduced a configuration option ("about:config") where you can enable
HTML5 using the following steps:

1. Type about:config in your Firefox address bar.
2. Click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button on the warning message that appears (and
make sure you adhere to it!).
3. Type html5.enable into the filter bar at the top of the page.

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4. Currently it would be disabled, so click it to toggle the value to true.

Now your Firefox HTML5 parser should now be enabled and you should be able to experiment
with the following examples.

HTML5 - SVG Circle
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw a cricle using <circle>
tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Circle</h2>
<svg id="svgelem" height="200" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
<circle id="redcircle" cx="50" cy="50" r="50" fill="red" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>

This would produce following result in HTML5 enabled latest version of Firefox.

HTML5 - SVG Rectangle
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw a rectangle using <rect>
tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Rectangle</h2>
<rect id="redrect" width="300" height="100" fill="red" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>

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HTML5 - SVG Line
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw a line using <line> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Line</h2>
<line x1="0" y1="0" x2="200" y2="100"
style="stroke:red;stroke-width:2"/>
</svg>
</body>
</html>

You can use style attribute which allows you to set additional style information like stroke and
fill colors, width of the stroke etc.


HTML5 - SVG Ellipse
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw an ellipse using <ellipse>
tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>

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</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Ellipse</h2>
<ellipse cx="100" cy="50" rx="100" ry="50" fill="red" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>


HTML5 - SVG Polygon
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw a polygon using
<polygon> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Polygon</h2>
<polygon points="20,10 300,20, 170,50" fill="red" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>


HTML5 - SVG Polyline
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw a polyline using
<polyline> tag:

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<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Polyline</h2>
<polyline points="0,0 0,20 20,20 20,40 40,40 40,60" fill="red" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>


HTML5 - SVG Gradients
Following is the HTML5 version of an SVG example which would draw a ellipse using <ellipse>
tag and would use <radialGradient> tag to define an SVG radial gradient.

Similar way you can use <linearGradient> tag to create SVG linear gradient.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<title>SVG</title>
</head>
<body>
<h2>HTML5 SVG Gradient Ellipse</h2>
<defs>
<radialGradient id="gradient" cx="50%" cy="50%" r="50%"
fx="50%" fy="50%">
<stop offset="0%" style="stop-color:rgb(200,200,200);
stop-opacity:0"/>
<stop offset="100%" style="stop-color:rgb(0,0,255);
stop-opacity:1"/>
</radialGradient>
</defs>
<ellipse cx="100" cy="50" rx="100" ry="50"
style="fill:url(#gradient)" />
</svg>
</body>
</html>


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HTML5 – WebSockets
Web Sockets is a next-generation bidirectional communication technology for web applications
which operates over a single socket and is exposed via a JavaScript interface in HTML 5
compliant browsers.

Once you get a Web Socket connection with the web server, you can send data from browser to
server by calling a send() method, and receive data from server to browser by an onmessage
event handler.

Following is the API which creates a new WebSocket object.

var Socket = new WebSocket(url, [protocal] );

Here first argument, url, specifies the URL to which to connect. The second attribute, protocol is
optional, and if present, specifies a sub-protocol that the server must support for the connection
to be successful.

WebSocket Attributes:
Following are the attribute of WebSocket object. Assuming we created Socket object as
mentioned above:

Attribute Description

Socket.readyState The readonly attribute readyState represents the state of the
connection. It can have the following values:

1. A value of 0 indicates that the connection has not yet
been established.
2. A value of 1 indicates that the connection is established
and communication is possible.
3. A value of 2 indicates that the connection is going through
the closing handshake.
4. A value of 3 indicates that the connection has been closed
or could not be opened.

Socket.bufferedAmount The readonly attribute bufferedAmount represents the number
of bytes of UTF-8 text that have been queued using send()
method.

WebSocket Events:

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Following are the events associated with WebSocket object. Assuming we created Socket object
as mentioned above:

Event Event Handler Description

open Socket.onopen This event occurs when socket connection is established.

message Socket.onmessage This event occurs when client receives data from server.

error Socket.onerror This event occurs when there is any error in communication.

close Socket.onclose This event occurs when connection is closed.

WebSocket Methods:
Following are the methods associated with WebSocket object. Assuming we created Socket
object as mentioned above:

Method Description

Socket.send() The send(data) method transmits data using the connection.

Socket.close() The close() method would be used to terminate any existing
connection.

WebSocket Example:
A WebSocket is a standard bidirectional TCP socket between the client and the server. The
socket starts out as a HTTP connection and then "Upgrades" to a TCP socket after a HTTP
handshake. After the handshake, either side can send data.

Client Side HTML & JavaScript Code:

At the time of writing this tutorial, there are only few web browsers supporting WebSocket()
interface. You can try following example with latest version of Chrome, Mozilla, Opera and
Safari.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function WebSocketTest()
{
if ("WebSocket" in window)
{
alert("WebSocket is supported by your Browser!");
// Let us open a web socket
var ws = new WebSocket("ws://localhost:9998/echo");
ws.onopen = function()
{

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// Web Socket is connected, send data using send()
ws.send("Message to send");
alert("Message is sent...");
};
ws.onmessage = function (evt)
{
var received_msg = evt.data;
alert("Message is received...");
};
ws.onclose = function()
{
// websocket is closed.
alert("Connection is closed...");
};
}
else
{
// The browser doesn't support WebSocket
alert("WebSocket NOT supported by your Browser!");
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="sse">
<a href="javascript:WebSocketTest()">Run WebSocket</a>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Install pywebsocket:

Before you test above client program, you need a server which supports WebSocket. Download
mod_pywebsocket-x.x.x.tar.gz from pywebsocket which aims to provide a Web Socket
extension for Apache HTTP Server ans install it following these steps.

1. Unzip and untar the downloaded file.
2. Go inside pywebsocket-x.x.x/src/ directory.
3. $python setup.py build
4. $sudo python setup.py install
5. Then read document by:
o $pydoc mod_pywebsocket

This will install it into your python environment.

Start the Server

Go to the pywebsocket-x.x.x/src/mod_pywebsocket folder and run the following
command:

$sudo python standalone.py -p 9998 -w ../example/

This will start the server listening at port 9998 and use the handlers directory specified by the -
w option where our echo_wsh.py resides.

Now using Chrome browser open the html file your created in the beginning. If your browser
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WebSocket and finally when you click on "Run WebSocket" you would get Goodbye message
sent by the server script.

HTML5 – Canvas
HTML5 element <canvas> gives you an easy and powerful way to draw graphics using
JavaScript. It can be used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple (and not so
simple) animations.

Here is a simple <canvas> element which has only two specific attributes width and height
plus all the core HTML5 attributes like id, name and class etc.

<canvas id="mycanvas" width="100" height="100"></canvas>

You can easily find that <canvas> element in the DOM using getElementById() method as
follows:

var canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas");

Let us see a simple example on using <canvas> element in HTML5 document.

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style>
#mycanvas{
border:1px solid red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<canvas id="mycanvas" width="100" height="100"></canvas>
</body>
</html>

The Rendering Context:
The <canvas> is initially blank, and to display something, a script first needs to access the
rendering context and draw on it.

The canvas element has a DOM method called getContext, used to obtain the rendering
context and its drawing functions. This function takes one parameter, the type of context 2d.

Following is the code to get required context along with a check if your browser supports
<canvas> element:

var canvas = document.getElementById("mycanvas");
if (canvas.getContext){
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
// drawing code here
} else {
// canvas-unsupported code here
}

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Browser Support
The latest versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera all support for HTML5 Canvas but IE8
does not support canvas natively.

You can use ExplorerCanvas to have canvas support through Internet Explorer. You just need to
include this javascript as follows:



HTML5 Canvas Examples:
This tutorial covers following examples related to HTML5 <canvas> element.

Examples Description

Drawing Rectangles Learn how to draw rectangle using HTML5 <canvas> element

Drawing Paths Learn how to make shapes using paths in HTML5 <canvas>
element

Drawing Lines Learn how to draw lines using HTML5 <canvas> element

Drawing Bezier Learn how to draw bezier curve using HTML5 <canvas> element

Drawing Quadratic Learn how to draw quadratic curve using HTML5 <canvas>
element

Using Images Learn how to use images with HTML5 <canvas> element

Create Gradients Learn how to create gradients using HTML5 <canvas> element

Styles and Colors Learn how to apply styles and colors using HTML5 <canvas>
element

Text and Fonts Learn how to draw amazing text using different fonts and their
size.

Pattern and Shadow Learn how to draw different patterns and drop shadows.

Canvas States Learn how to save and restore canvas states while doing complex
drawings on a canvas.

Canvas Translation This method is used to move the canvas and its origin to a
different point in the grid.

Canvas Rotation This method is used to rotate the canvas around the current
origin.

Canvas Scaling This method is used to increase or decrease the units in a canvas
grid.

Canvas Transform These methods allow modifications directly to the transformation
matrix.

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Canvas Composition This method is used to mask off certain areas or clear sections
from the canvas.

Canvas Animation Learn how to create basic animation using HTML5 canvas and
Javascript.

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