HTML5 Performance.pdf

Bryant Jones Shelve in Web Design / HTML User level: Intermediate–Advanced RCE CODE ONLINE RELATED BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS ? Pro HTML5 Performance Pro HTML5 Performance is a practical guide to building extremely fast, lightweight, and scalable web sites using techniques and best practices that are fully standards- compliant. It will help you squeeze every last ounce of performance from your code and give your applications unrivaled speed and cost-efficiency. You’ll learn how to: ? Optimize HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript for client-side performan ce ? Reduce your code’s bandwidth to achieve speed and cost savings ? Target multiple devices from the same page ? Get your HTML5 content to gracefully degrade on older browsers ? Create advanced applications, such as animations, with a light footprint ? Make HTML5’s semantic markup work for you Pro HTML5 Performance strikes a balance between imparting best-practice infor- mation for building from the ground up and demonstrating instantly applicable techniques to help solve issues arising within existing projects. With its wealth of practical advice, focused tips, and code samples, it will help you master techniques for creating your own high-performance web sites. Get started creating high-perfor- mance web sites today! 1 ■■■ P A R T 1 Introduction This book deals with creating high-performance web sites. Its focus is large and high-volume sites. We met while working for pany whose web site has upwards of 50,000 pages and gets more than 80,000,000 visitors a month (many more during the holiday shopping season). The advice the book gives, however, applies equally to smaller sites, sites that don’t get nearly as much traffic. Regardless of the site’s complexity or traffic load, everyone wants good performance, after all. We discuss three kinds of performance in the book: ? client-side (that is, browser) performance ? server-side work performance ? developer performance As this list i