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Web Standards

Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML

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  1. Leslie F. Sikos
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  • Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML provides solutions to the most common web design problems, and gives you a deep understanding of web standards and how they can be implemented to improve your web sites.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Web Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction to Web Standards

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 3-36

    3. Internationalization

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 37-51

    4. Markup Languages: More Than HTML5

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 53-126

    5. Serving and Configuration

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 127-145

    6. Style Sheets

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 147-196

    7. Scripting and Applications

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 197-232

    8. Metadata and the Semantic Web

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 233-292

    9. Web Syndication

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 293-316

    10. Optimized Appearance

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 317-347

    11. Accessibility

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 349-383

  3. Developing with Standards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 385-385
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    2. Development Tools

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 387-405

    3. Putting It All Together

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 407-431

    4. Best Practices

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 433-443

    5. Validation

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 445-470

    6. Most Common Errors

      • Leslie F. Sikos
      Pages 471-482

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 483-496
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About this book

Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML provides solutions to the most common web design problems, and gives you a deep understanding of web standards and how they can be implemented to improve your web sites. You will learn how to develop fully standards-compliant, mobile-friendly, and search engine-optimized web sites that are robust, fast, and easy to update while providing excellent user experience and interoperability. The book covers all major web standards for markup, style sheets, web typography, web syndication, semantic annotations, and accessibility. This edition has been fully updated with the latest in web standards, including the finalized HTML5 vocabulary and the full list of CSS3 properties.

Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML is also a comprehensive guide to current and future standards for the World Wide Web, demonstrating the implementation of new technologies to address the constantly growing user expectations. Web Standards: Mastering HTML5, CSS3, and XML presents step-by-step guides based on solid design principles and best practices, and shows the most common web development tools and web design frameworks. You will master HTML5 and its XML serialization, XHTML5, the new structuring and multimedia elements, the most important HTML5 APIs, and understand the standardization process of HTML 5.1, HTML 5.2, and future HTML5 versions.

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About the author

Leslie F. Sikos, Ph.D., is a Semantic Web researcher at Flinders University, South Australia, specializing in semantic video annotations, ontology engineering, and natural language processing using Linguistic Linked Open Data. On the cutting edge of Internet technologies, he is a member of industry-leading organizations, such as the World Wide Web Consortium, the Internet Engineering Task Force, and the Internet Society. He is an invited editor and journal reviewer actively contributing to the development of open standards. Dr. Sikos is the author of 15 textbooks covering a wide range of topics from computer networks to software engineering and web design. Devoted to lifelong learning, he holds multiple degrees in computer science and information technology, as well as professional certificates from the industry. Thanks to his hands-on skills, coupled with a pedagogical background, he can introduce technical terms and explain complex issues in plain English.Dr. Sikos creates fully standard-compliant, mobile-friendly web sites with responsive web design—complemented by machine-readable annotations—and develops multimedia applications leveraging Semantic Web technologies. He works on the standardization of Linked Data implementations for the precise identification, description, and classification of multimedia fragments, advancing the traditional video annotation techniques. Inspired by the creation and exploitation of rich Linked Open Data datasets, he proudly contributes to the Open Data and Open Knowledge initiatives. For more information, visit www.lesliesikos.com.
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