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Create forward-compatible websites using feature detection features of Modernizr
Overview
- Build a progressive experience using a vast array of detected CSS3 features
- Replace images with CSS based counterparts.
- Learn the benefits of detecting features instead of checking the name and version of the browser and serving accordingly.
In Detail
Modern web browsers support a whole range of new HTML5 and CSS3 features that make web development fun. But supporting old browsers can make a web developers life difficult. With HTML5 Modernizr, you can check for features and deliver a design around them that is not only backward, but also forward compatible.
Learning Modernizr will guide you step by step through the process of converting to a feature rich CSS3 experience using the Modernizr feature detection JavaScript library. With this book, you can take an image-based design and gradually convert it to be 100 percent CSS based using Modernizr to detect feature support.
You will also learn how to implement the bulk of todays leading CSS3 features not limited to animations, text shadow, content generation, and more. You will also learn to change the page using media queries to determine the dimensions of the page and alter the content accordingly as well as HTML5 features such as localstorage so you can save content to the browser.
You will learn everything you need to know in order to design progressively using feature detection. Prepare your design to not just handle legacy browsers, but additionally for the HTML5 standard features you know will be added into subsequent versions of the browser.
What you will learn from this book
- Perform feature detection with the Modernizr JavaScript library.
- Use HTML classes to alter the look of the page based on features found.
- Check for features using JavaScript
- Explore how feature detection differs from User Agent Detection.
- The difference between blocking versus nonblocking scripts .
- Create various backgrounds using multiple backgrounds and gradients.
- Draw and animate CSS3 clouds that literally rain features.
- Automatically generate vendor prefixes.
- Use CSS to draw and animate an assortment of shapes and shadows.
Approach
Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, Learning Modernizr is a practical guide for using the feature detection features of HTML5 Modernizr to create forward compatible sites.
Who this book is written for
Learning Modernizr is great for developers looking for a broad range of use cases for feature detection. It is particularly meant for web developers who want to take advantage of the cool new HTML5 and CSS5 features but at the same time deliver a design that is not only backward, but forward compatible.
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First published: December 2012
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Adam Watson began life as a guitar maker but quickly transitioned into tech after landing a firmware-testing gig at Hewlett Packard. After getting a taste of the tech life, he began designing and coding websites in early 2000. Now, he works for BUZZMEDIA, a leading pop-culture company developing a mobile face for the company network of more than 40 music and pop-culture websites. He has also helped in writing the official Facebook plugin for WordPress, re-factoring portions of it a week before its official launch.
BUZZMEDIA is the leader in pop-culture and has millennial audience reach. It's the world's fastest-growing digital media company, with more than 100 million monthly unique visitors.
Over 35 BUZZMEDIA brands including SPIN, Celebuzz, Stereogum, Buzznet, The Superficial, Idolator, Just Jared, Just Jared Jr., PureVolume, The Hype Machine, AbsolutePunk, What Would Tyler Durden Do?, SocialiteLife, Go Fug Yourself, Pink is the New Blog, Gorilla vs. Bear, RCRD LBL, Videogum, TheFrisky, Egotastic!, Concrete Loop, Brooklyn Vegan, Crunktastical, Punknews.org, and others are category-leading, authentic, influential voices.
I'd like to thank Kelly, M.J., and Maddy for their support in helping me to make this book possible.
Chetankumar Akarte is an Electronics Engineer from Nagpur University located in central India. He has more than 6 years of experience in the design, development, and deployment of Web, Windows, and mobile-based applications, with expertise in PHP, .NET, JavaScript, Java, Android, and more.
He likes to contribute on the newsgroups' forums. He has written articles for Electronics For You, DeveloperIQ, and Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine. In his spare time, he likes to maintain his technical blog at http://www.tipsntracks.com to get in touch with developers community. He has been a technical reviewer for two books published by Packt Publishing. He has released some Marathi and Hindi e-book applications on the Android market (https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Chetankumar+Akarte).
He lives in the hilly Kharghar area of Navi Mumbai with his son Kaiwalya and wife Shraddha. You can visit his websites at >.
I would like to thank my wife Shraddha and my parents for their consistent support and encouragement. My lovely son Kaiwalya who allowed me to use his playtime with me to dedicate towards this book. I would also like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to do something useful and especially the Project Coordinator, Shraddha Bagadia for all the valuable support.
Ben Fhala is a leading voice in the Technology Advertising world of New York. He is the owner of the online video training school 02geek.com, an Adobe ACP. He enjoys spending most of his time in learning and teaching, and has a love for visual programming and visualization in general.
He has had the honor to develop applications for US Congress members, Prime Ministers, and Presidents around the world. He has built many advertising experiences for companies such as Target, AT&T, Crayola, Marriott, Neutrogena, and Nokia. He has technically directed and led many award winning projects and has so far helped three agencies receive an Agency of the Year Award (not just helped but led the technical side to produce award quality work).
He has recently written his first book, HTML5 Graphing and Data Visualization Cookbook , Packt Publishing , available from November 2012.
Thanks for giving me a chance to be a part of this book. I've enjoyed reading it and putting my few small pointers. It's been honored to be included in this project and I want to thank the readers for joining in and wish them a great read.
Michelle Williamson began her journey with computers in 1994 with a traumatizing mishap involving a 15-page graduate class paper and an unformatted floppy disk. She spent 5 years as a staunch luddite before becoming obsessed with web development and technology in general. She has been a freelancing web developer since 2000, starting out in Microsoft platforms, then drinking the open source Kool-Aid in 2008 and has since devoted her time primarily to Drupal development. She's an incessant learner, addicted to head-scratching challenges, and looks forward to experiencing the continued evolution of mobile technology.
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