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Getting started with HTML5′s Web Sockets

Posted by on Feb 16, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments

Web Sockets is a new addition to HTML5 that allows you to create a persistent connection with a server for communication. With Ajax,...

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Reader Question: How to look at the computed style of an element?

Posted by on Feb 14, 2012 in Beginner's Mind, Blog, Reader Question | 0 comments

We recently got a question from Michael, who asks: When troubleshooting CSS issues, how can I determine the source of a style that is...

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Reader Question: Incrementing variables

Posted by on Jan 19, 2012 in Beginner's Mind, Reader Question | 0 comments

I got a good reader question today about incrementing variables. This reader is completely new to programming and was getting confused...

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Reader Question: What are -webkit- and -moz-?

Posted by on Dec 12, 2011 in Blog, Reader Question | 1 comment

We recently got a question from Jack, a reader of Head First HTML5 Programming, about the CSS used in the example in Chapter 3. In this...

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How to make a pie chart with HTML5′s canvas

Posted by on Dec 6, 2011 in Blog | 0 comments

One of the best things about the HTML5 <canvas> element is that we can now do things like this: without needing a plug in. I...

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