Doug Schepers

Doug Schepers works for the W3C as the Rich Web Clients Activity Lead, and the Team Contact for the SVG and WebApps Working Groups, and participates in several other groups, including HTML and OWEA. He is an editor of the Element Traversal, DOM3 Events, and SVG specifications, and co-chairs the SVG Interest Group. Before joining the W3C Team, he has been a long-time developer of Web applications, with a focus on SVG. Doug works from home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

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Session: SVG Fun Park

The hottest trend in Web design is HTML5, and SVG is the best way for designers to make adaptable Web images in HTML5. Scalable Vector Graphics is now spreading rapidly, in browsers, smartphones and tablets, and even televisions, with broad native support and graphical script libraries. It’s used on major web sites like Wikipedia, Google Docs, New York Times, and the Washington Post. Whether images or apps, stand alone or integrated into HTML, CSS, or Canvas, SVG is a powerful tool in a developer or designer toolkit. With full scripting support, CSS styling, animations, and advanced visual effects, SVG lets you reuse skills you already have. This presentation will take you on a tour of the SVG Fun Park, and teach you how to use SVG to best effect to add standards-based bling to your webapp or site, see what works and what to avoid, and prepare for the future of Web development.