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HTML5. It's more than paving the cowpaths. It's more than markup. There's a lot of stuff in the spec about databases and communication protocols and blahdiblah backend juju. Some of that stuff is pretty radical. And it will change how you design websites. Why? Because for the last twenty years, web designers have been creating inside of a certain set of constraints. We've been limited in what's possible by the technology that runs the web. We became so used to those limits, we stopped thinking about them. They became invisible. They Just Are. Of course the web works this certain way. Of course a user clicks and waits, the page loads, like this… but guess what? That's not what the web will look like in the future. The constrains have changed. Come hear a non-nerd explanation of the new possibilities created by HTML5’s APIs. Don't just wait around to see how other people implement these technologies. Learn about HTML APIs yourself, so you can design for and create the web of the future.
20. The World-Wide Web (W3) was developed to
be a pool of human knowledge, which would
allow collaborators in remote sites to share their
ideas and all aspects of a common project… The
idea of the Web was prompted by positive
experience of a small “home-brew” personal
hypertext system used for keeping track of
personal information on a distributed project.
— Tim Berners-Lee, 1994
45. What to do?
Real-time updates of content
on a single web page
Multiple people using single page, seeing
each others activity immediately
One person using multiple web windows
on multiple devices at the same time
81. An innovator is not someone
who creates something
amazing out of nothing.
An innovator is someone who
wakes up to the constraints
caused by false assumptions,
and breaks out of them.