HTML5 Developers Conference – Day 2
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Day two of the HTML5 Developers Conference delivered just as many interesting talks as day one. Here’s the rundown.
I’ll add presentation links as I find them.
Arno Gourdol - “How cupcakes are moving the web forward” (keynote speech)
Adobe (another major sponsor) handled the day two keynote. Arno showcased a bunch of Adobe’s work for the web community, including some genuinely cool projects like snap.svg. My favourite was the Alice in Wonderland demo, and I think most people in the room agreed. Here’s a video if you’d rather not clone it from GitHub. (Heads up: it only runs on Chrome Canary for now.)
Ian Johnson - “Adventures in d3.js” (Link to presentation)
d3.js is a JavaScript library for charting and plotting data. Ian walked through live examples that you can explore via the presentation link above. He also created Tributary, an experimental environment for rapid-prototyping visualisation code.
Diane Bisgeier - “From Developer to Entrepreneur” (Link to presentation)
Diane is part of Mozilla’s WebFWD team. She talked about how developers should approach launching their own companies and what to focus on first.
Chris Wilson - Web RTC
An overview of WebRTC and where it’s heading. Nothing here I hadn’t heard before, though a recap never hurts. I do wish there’d been more about together.js (worth checking out if you haven’t).
Anant Narayanan - “Building JS APIs for Browsers” (Link to presentation)
I’d been looking forward to Anant’s talk since I’d collaborated with him on StackOverflow and GitHub. He covered the best ways to integrate JavaScript APIs, the trade-offs involved, and which HTML features work in which browsers. He stressed the importance of always having a fallback mechanism in place.
Joshua Woodward - “AngularJS and the Single Page Application (SAP)”
I’ll be honest: this one disappointed me. Not because of the quality, but because I was expecting something lower-level. The presentation stayed at a high level, covering basic AngularJS concepts like one- and two-way data bindings, directives, and routing.
Joe Marini - “Building Native Apps with HTML5”
The final talk of the day. Joe explained how to build Chrome Apps using HTML5. I had no idea Chrome Apps were all written in HTML5, and now I know the best practices for building one.
That wraps up day two. Another great time. Hoping to make it back in 2014.