Remy Sharp gives an overview of HTML5 covering new semantic language and new JavaScript APIs, first addressing the year 2022 (and jokes about the Queen falling flat on it's face!). Given for Geek in the Park 2009
For the first half of Dean?s talk, most people couldn?t grasp the magnitude of what they were seeing. Dean was showing his new JavaScript library that plugs the holes in browsers? HTML 5 implementations. If a browser does do something natively, ther library does nothing; otherwise it fills that gap ? so now you can have Web Forms with all browsers, canvas in IE. As a bonus, it?s all keyboard accessible, everything looks like native UI controls and it even inherits the native Windows themes.
Standards.next - where Bruce Lawson discusses some myths that are causing unnecessary FUD and doing a basic demo of markup for a blog.
Standards.next, HTML5 JavaScript APIs and friends, given by Remy Sharp.