Friday 6 March 2009

9th March: WYLUG meeting - Talk on HTML5 by Dave Fisher

This month Dave Fisher is going to be giving a talk on HTML5.


HTML 5 - What's New, Why It Matters, And What You Can Do With It
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1 New elements and attributes
2 Modified elements and attributes
3 Deprecated elements and attributes
4 Images and multimedia elements
* figure, audio, video and embed
5 Scripting
* Canvas and GUI scripting
* More support for web-apps
* Detailed DOM spec
6 Forms
* New controls
* Scripting support
7 Prescriptive browser behaviour
* Error handling, including invalid content
* Non-XML serialisation
* Rendering consistency


Dave's last talk was superb and I am glad he has agreed to come back so soon to do another.

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

Location:
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page (
http://www.oldbroadcastinghouse.com/contact/
or on Open Street Map
(http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=53.80565lon=-1.5487&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF

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