HTML5 meetup

• Dean Edwards

  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.)