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HTML5 Redux

When: Mon September 27, 2010 7:00 pm

Organization: Boston PHP User Group

Location: Microsoft N.E.R.D. Center

Speaker(s): Philippe Le Hegaret

Website: http://www.meetup.com/bostonphp/calendar/14457300/

Come join us as we re-explore what's coming in HTML5 and how might apply it to your next project.

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML. Along with technologies like SVG, CSS3, and various APIs, the HTML5 Platform aims at enabling rich Web applications, including with video and graphic animation. Major Web browsers are all rushing to implement this new wave.

Many great new features such as:

  • New HTML elements and attributes
  • Built in APIs like Drag and Drop, Video, Audio, and Geolocation
  • CSS3 goodies: New Selectors, Borders, Media Queries, Transformations, Transitions, etc.
  • Local storage: Web Storage, Indexed Database
  • Web workers
  • Video element
  • Canvas and its 2D API
  • Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
  • WOFF, the Web Open Font Format
  • and much more...

This will be presented by Philippe Le Hegaret of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Philippe heads the team responsible for standardizing frontend Web technologies including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, WOFF, or Web APIs. He is a former Chair of the Document Object Model (DOM) Working Group and wrote the first version of the W3C CSS validator back in 1997.

Why a redux?
Last month, we had an HTML5 meetup. However, many of you expected this event to contain more emphasis on HTML5 features such as, semantic tags, new html elements and attributes, CSS Selectors, and other related HTML5 topics.

As a reaction to your feedback, we are repeating this topic. This time with the presentation being done by the folks who are working on HTML5 - the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

That's right! The folks at W3C have kindly agreed to come to Boston PHP and present their overview of what's coming in HTML5.

Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 : Doors open, socializing
7:00 - 7:15 : Announcements
7:15 - 8:45 : Presentation
8:45 - 9:00 : Questions
9:00 - ???? : Beers somewhere?

RSVP Now - this is going to be a popular event!