HTML5 has been around for quite some time and it brought along a whole slew of new semantic elements. If you do a quick search, you’ll be able to find plenty of tutorials that give an in-depth explanation of what’s new in HTML5, what makes it so great, and how to transition from (X)HTML to HTML5. But, HTML5 also introduced various application programming interfaces that are far less discussed, yet they form a large part of HTML5 specification and are predicted to dominate the future of web development....
One of the big obstacles in designing a game in HTML5 is that the popular gamepad hardware isn't available. Nobody wants to play a game with keyboard buttons, so the arrival of the Gamepad API brings us a lot closer to console-style gaming in the browser. Browser support ... At the time of writing, the only browsers that support the Gamepad API are Chrome and Firefox — the latest version of each working unprefixed. However, the more we use this API, the more browser manufacturers will support it, and as...
Web Components have really come a long way since they were first introduced, but one aspect of components that could really change how we code websites is HTML Imports. This way of working allows us to import HTML documents into other HTML documents. It was possible with Ajax, but HTML Imports is a cleaner method. Browser support ... HTML Imports are a very new technology and as of the time of writing, are only supported in Chrome 31 and later. Even then, you’re required to activate the feature. To do so...
The DOM has been a part of our webpages from the beginning, and since the earliest browsers there have always been certain things we wanted, but couldn’t get from the DOM; and other things we wanted to hide. The shadow DOM is designed exactly for that, it hides DOM subtrees under shadow roots, giving you a method of creating a better and more functional encapsulation in the DOM. Browser support ... This functionality is very much new and experimental so it’s only available at the moment in Chrome 25+...