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Dive Into HTML5 comprises original prose written by Mark Pilgrim. The text is Copyright © 2009, O’Reilly Media, but they have graciously allowed me to publish it here under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
This book includes illustrations from the Open Clip Art Library, all of which are old enough that they have passed into the public domain.
In addition, the drop caps at the beginning of each chapter are from The Alphabet of Children. These illustrations are also in the public domain.
The live video example at the end of Video on the Web uses a poster image called From Grandma's Basement: Apple IIe by Paulo Ordoveza. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.
This site relies heavily on jQuery for its interactive features. jQuery is dual-licensed; I am using it here under the terms of the MIT license.
Copyright (c) 2009 John Resig, http://jquery.com/ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
This site both describes and uses Modernizr, an HTML5 feature detection script by Faruk Ateş, Paul Irish, and others. It is licensed under the MIT license.
/*! * Modernizr v1.7 * http://www.modernizr.com * * Developed by: * - Faruk Ates http://farukat.es/ * - Paul Irish http://paulirish.com/ * * Copyright (c) 2009-2011 * Dual-licensed under the BSD or MIT licenses. * http://www.modernizr.com/license/ */ Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The chapters on Detecting HTML5 Features and geolocation use geoPosition.js. This is a script by J. Esteban Acosta Villafañe which papers over the differences between the myriad of geolocation APIs that browsers, devices, and 3rd party browser plugins offer. It is licensed under the MIT license.
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2012 J. Esteban Acosta Villafañe Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
This site uses portions of code extracted from JavaScript Search Term Highlighter, a script by Dave Lemen that parses search terms out of the referrer URL. It is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Copyright 2004 Dave Lemen
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The chapter on <canvas> uses ExplorerCanvas, a script which implements large portions of the canvas API in Internet Explorer. It is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
Copyright 2006 Google Inc.
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The chapter on <canvas> uses some code from Bespin to emulate the canvas text API in Firefox 3.0. Bespin is licensed under the Mozilla Public License.
* ***** BEGIN LICENSE BLOCK ***** * Version: MPL 1.1 * * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License * Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in * compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ * * Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" * basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing rights and * limitations under the License. * * The Original Code is Bespin. * * The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Mozilla. * Portions created by the Initial Developer are Copyright (C) 2009 * the Initial Developer. All Rights Reserved. * * Contributor(s): * Bespin Team (bespin@mozilla.com) * * ***** END LICENSE BLOCK *****
The chapter on <canvas> uses some code from canvas.text.js to emulate the canvas text API in Firefox 3.0. It is licensed under the MIT license.
Copyright (c) 2009 Fabien Ménager Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
The body text on this site is typeset in a subsetted version of Linux Libertine (source), which is licensed under the GPL 2 or later, with the following exception:
As a special exception, if you create a document which uses this font, and embed this font or unaltered portions of this font into the document, this font does not by itself cause the resulting document to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this font, you may extend this exception to your version of the font, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
Headers and caption text on this site are typeset in a subsetted version of Essays 1743 (source), which is licensed under the LGPL 2 or later. The font comes with this README file:
This is Essays 1743, a font by John Stracke, based on the typeface used in a 1743 English translation of Montaigne's Essays. The font is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (see the COPYING file). At present (version 0.2), it contains 817 characters: all of ASCII, Latin-1, and Latin Extended A; some of Latin Extended B (basically, the ones that are more or less based on Roman letters); and a variety of other characters, such as oddball punctuation, numerals, etc. TrueType and PostScript forms are available. For the purposes of the LGPL, the source file is Essays1743.sfd (the pfaedit source), which should be included in this archive.
Headers in the HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers chart are typeset in a subsetted version of Chunk, which is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.
Text and code samples in the HTML5 Peeks, Pokes and Pointers chart are typeset in a subsetted version of Latin Modern, which is licensed under the GUST Font License.
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