Provides a comprehensive look at the HTML 5 standard as implemented by the top 5 browsers i.e. Opera, Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari. It covers HTML 5 Structure, Semantics, SVG/MathML, WebForms, Canvas, Native Drag & Drop, Browser History Management, Inline Document Editing, Cross Document/Domain Messaging, Offline Applications Caching & WebDatabases, Audio & Video & Related Tools, GeoLocation, Local & Session Storage, Server Side Events, Workers, Web Sockets. Besides providing practical real world examples for each of the features each chapter contains explanation of the HTML 5 specification for each feature so that you understand what can be expected when they are implemented fully by the browser vendors. Also includes explanation of plugins and third party libraries used in HTML 5 development. We shall be using the JQuery Javascript library extensively. Also web socket chapter contains examples using Netty and Jetty to create WebSocket Servers. It is intended for developers, QA, analysts and architects who are building next generation web applications using HTML 5 and are tasked with analysis, development and QA of such systems. It is also intended for students and freshers who are planning to take up web application development or leaders who want to understand how HTML 5 can be capitalized upon. This can be used as one single reference and guide for any future web application development as far as HTML is concerned. When this book is published it will be the first book available worldwide on HTML 5.