Web browsers

Not surprisingly, it would be helpful to have a browser installed so that you can see the end product of your HTML5 source code. Though any browser will do for most purposes, having Firefox or Chrome installed will enable live layout editing in the Intel® XDK, so you can immediately see the effects of your changes.

VIEWING YOUR WORK

There are a couple of easy ways you can use a browser to view your work.

First, you can open the file in your browser.  Typically if you navigate to an html file and open it the system will open it with a browser by default.  This should be sufficient for our purposes in this class, but there is one other way to do it that's worth mentioning.

RUNNING A LOCAL WEB SERVER (OPTIONAL)

Running a local Web server can be the best way to view web apps that you've written.  There are a number of fairly easy ways to do that, but it's beyond the scope of this class.  If you'd like to experiment with it, check out some links:

• WAMP server: http://www.howtogeek.com/177129/beginner-geek-how-to-host-your-own-website-on-windows-wamp/
• EasyPHP: http://www.easyphp.org/
• SimpleHTTPserver: https://docs.python.org/2/library/simplehttpserver.html
• HTTP-server: https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server