Abstract
There is currently a lot of buzz around HTML5, the next evolutionary step of the very foundation on which we build our websites. New markup constructs, new JavaScript APIs, and the prospect of powerful functionalities built right into modern browsers to make our lives as developers that much easier.
But with new technologies also come new challenges: when will all these features be available in all browsers? And what about older browsers? Is it safe to start using HTML5 now, or should we wait until the specification is final? Do we have to re-learn everything we know about HTML?
In this talk Patrick will take us on a whirlwind tour of HTML5 (and other associated technologies often lumped together under this term), addressing the most common concerns that developers may have about it, and offer a glimpse of the new possibilities offered by this exciting new web standard.
Resources
The slides are available on the Slideshare repository.
A video of the session is available on the Vimeo video sharing service.
In addition the video is also available in WebM format on the Archive.org.
An experimental service called ITitle developed by Martin Hawksey, RSC Scotland North and East which provides a video of the talk with Twitter captioning is available.