Welcome to HTML5 - Tuesday, May 14th, 2013 at 19h00
We’ll supply dinner for the group starting at 6:30 PM. If you’re planning to join us for dinner, please send an email to
tamar@tamargranor.com, so we buy enough food.
Abstract: There is a lot of confusion and hype surrounding HTML5. The confusion is because the HTML5 standard isn't scheduled to reach "full recommendation status" until 2022! Yet we're seeing it in all the latest browser for both desktops and mobile devices. (Of course, they don't all implement HTML5 exactly the same as the others!) The hype comes with all the new features available to us today.
In this session, we'll take a look at the timeline and discuss what it means to us - specifically why we shouldn't wait until 2022 to start using HTML5.
We'll dive into several of the new HTML5 features and look at examples of how these things are to be implemented into our websites. We'll look at the new semantic HTML (new tags such as header and footer); video and audio; Canvas; geolocation; inline elements (mark, time, progress); form input types (datetime, range, email); interactive elements (details, datagrid, etc.); offline capabilities; mobile implications and more.