Bruce Lawson

Bruce evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He’s currently working with the British Standards Institution to draft the new Standard for commissioning accessible web sites and writing a book about HTML5. Previously, he’s been front-end technical lead for the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority web sites, tutor to a princess’ daughter in Thailand, a movie extra in Bombay, and a tarot card reader in Istanbul. He blogs at www.brucelawson.co.uk, drinks Guinness and is training for a blue belt in kickboxing.

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Session: Be an Iron Chef of HTML5

The secret of great cookery is knowing your ingredients and how they combine. This talk will give you an idea of what's possible with HTML5, with examples of how things work together so you can understand what they can do and how they can interact.

We'll look at some new markup, including HTML5 Forms, <canvas> and <video>. We'll also look at how HTML5 itself was cooked, the way the language was designed and why it tastes like it does. Then you can go and combine these ingredients in your own new recipes for incredible new web apps.

There will be code on the slides for developers, but it's not a code-heavy talk. I will show you how HTML5 makes some things you do already easier and better, and how it brings brand new functionality to the open web that previously we've needed plugins for or have been impossible.