Capture a Signature with jQuery and HTML 5

In this series you’ll learn how to add a signature field to your website that allows a user to write their signature on an HTML 5 canvas element. You’ll capture the signature and save it on the server and also learn how to regenerate the signature to display it back to the user at a later date. This technique is cross browser friendly and works in IE7, 8, 9, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. It will also work on most mobile device touch screens. Check out the demo: codecompendium.com Download the plugin used in this example here: thomasjbradley.ca Include jQuery from Google’s CDN: code.google.com

HTML5 Dev Conf: HTML5 the 30000 Foot Overview Updated

Peter Lubbers is the Director of Documentation and Training at Kaazing. He is also the co-author of the Apress book Pro HTML 5 Programming and teaches HTML5 training courses here at Marakana. In this video he will gives us an overview of HTML5 and the direction in which it is heading. Peter will introduce HTML5, he will explain what it is, as well as give us a brief history of HTML, he will tell you why it is worth using, its feature areas, and lastly your HTML5 2011 toolkit. ** Learn more about HTML5 Development at marakana.com

HTML5 Canvas Tag Tutorial Learn to Draw and Animate Using Javascript

Script: www.developphp.com In this video lesson series you can learn all about how to draw into the HTML5 canvas tag using Javascript. The canvas tag is aptly named. It supplies you with a means of drawing things through script and it renders in a browser. Things can be stationary or animated inside of a canvas tag. We can use Javascript to draw what we want in the canvas so in this series we will demonstrate some of the drawing methods one can use. We will also demonstrate how to animate things inside of the canvas tag using Javascript.