Hi everyone, I'm one of the authors of
HTML5 in Action. I know very little about Scala or
Java as server side languages, but HTML5 in Action will appeal to anyone wishing to provide a rich application experience in the web browser. As a quick taster of the sort of opportunities modern client-side web development affords developers, check out
Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! which discusses the experimental support for
WebRTC in the latest beta versions of Firefox and Chrome and demos a peer to peer video chat application (this stuff is coming out a little too late to make the book, but we do cover some related things).
If you have any questions about HTML5, JavaScript or CSS3 you can usually find me in the
HTML, CSS and JavaScript forum.