In what we’re hoping will be the first of many semi-regular (every two to three months) sessions “up north”, the dynamic duo of Bruce Lawson and Patrick H. Lauke from Opera‘s Developer Relations team will take you on a whirlwind tour of HTML5. No hype, no lengthy theoretical discussions – 2 hours of live coding demonstrations (look out for the hilarious typos) that will take you from the basics of some of the new structural elements and the bizarre new world of the outline algorithm right to the fancy new features like native audio/video and canvas.

Bring your laptop and code along, or just sit back and let Bruce and Patrick show you how you can start to leverage some of the new features and functionalities of HTML5. And make sure to stick around for a few well-deserved drinks at Common across the road.

This event is run in association with Fly the Coop and Speak the Web, and kindly hosted by MadLab. As always, it’s free for all to attend.

Dan Appelquist (Vodafone)

Mobile and devices: the state of standards and standards support

Patrick H. Lauke (Opera)

Making your website mobile-friendly

Doug Schepers (W3C)

Mobiles and SVG

Elliot Kember

Building a Twitter widget

Thanks to the speakers and all attendees, for great conversations and questions, and keeping the event fun, discursive and informal.

We’ve got several speakers lined up including Molly E. Holzschlag, who will speak on CSS3 color including HSLa and RGBa; Håkon Wium Lie, who will present on Web typography; Andy Budd who will show us how to use backgrounds, borders and other CSS3 design techniques, and Pete LePage who will talk about HTML5 features in IE. We expect to have a few surprises and there’ll be plenty of opportunities for attendees to give lightning talks.

To give you a taste of what’s in store, see the poster page for standards.next CSS3 – live from New York City.

Directions: Enter the Time-Life Building via the 50^th or 51^st Street entrance and proceed to the desk labeled Standards.Next to pick up your ID tag. Then take the escalator to the 2^nd floor, Room 1. Please account for 10-15 minutes to ensure you clear building security before the event starts.

• Antonia Hyde – Accessibility Beyond Code
• Jamie Knight and Lion – Autism, the Internet and Antelopes
• David Owens – Lessons Learnt User Testing
• Ian Pouncey – Content and Cognition

Our speakers triggered some really good debate around not just the fundamentals of design and copy for easier processing but also the role of the browser to help people customise content to make it easier to digest (which Bruce and I have taken back to Opera) as well as styling of forms, buttons, links and the dangers of lightboxes.

One of the best things about meetups like this is the collaboration that comes out of it so it’s been great to see a number of people take the issues around lightboxes and start to look at how we can make them more accessible for all users both in terms of how we understand and interact with them and how we them them technically accessible . Watch this space as I’ll blog any outcomes.

There’s been lots of coverage of the event over blogs and Twitter so I’ll hand it over here to the following write ups. If you know of any others or have suggestions of links or tools let us know.

• Antonia Hyde
• Jeff Van Campen
• Léonie Watson
• Henny Swan
• Bruce Lawson – leave a comment for Bruce if you have any thoughts about stylable HTML5 forms
• Tweets –  great collaborative note taking over Twitter

Dean was an original member of the WHAT-WG, the group that began the HTML 5 spec, and creator of the legendary IE 7 JavaScript library. Watch him demo his JavaScript library that plugs the holes in browser HTML 5 support.

Steve Faulkner

Steve works for accessibility consultancy, The Paciello Group. He’ll talk about the accessibility of the HTML 5 spec and how it might integrate with WAI-ARIA for your education, entertainment and edification. (Steve Faulkner: HTML 5 accessibility, slides.)

Molly E. Holzschlag

Your Mistress of Ceremonies for the day, Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera and is the design and development community liaison to the W3C CSS Working Group.

Martin Kliehm

Martin has been experimenting with the HTML 5 canvas element and will show a few home-brewed examples. He is a web standards and accessibility expert working for Namics in Frankfurt, a member of the Webkrauts and the International Liaison Group of the Web Standards Project. (Martin Kliehm: HTML 5 canvas slides, video demoes, links)

Bruce Lawson

Bruce has been experimenting with actually using HTML 5 on his personal website, the crazy fool. Previously the technical lead for the Solicitors Regulation Authority, he now evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He’ll be delighting and amazing the audience with an overview of the new semantics available in HTML 5. Thrill to header, footer, aside, figure, section, and article! Join him welcoming back accesskey like a prodigal son and weeping for what might have been with the time element. (Bruce Lawson: HTML 5 – Are you mything the point slides, demoes, video.)

Remy Sharp

Remy is a Brighton-based JavaScripter who runs jQuery for Designers and the full frontal JavaScript conference. Prepare to laugh and cry as Remy discusses some of HTML 5′s new APIs, which include the Microdata API, History and Location to support back button support for Ajax apps, drag and drop, the editing API and Server-sent event.

Whether or not you speaka-da-JavaScript, Remy will give you an overview of the potential power of the proposed spec. (Remy Sharp: HTML 5 JavaScript APIs slides, video, demoes.)