Bruce Lawson's opening talk on HTML 5 myths and markup you can use now

1. HTML 5 -
are you mything the point?
Bruce Lawson, Opera

2. Evil browser vendors dominate

3. Hello tag soup, goodbye XML
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4. Kills Flash/ Liverslight/ JS

5. It will break the intertubes

6. It hates accessibility

7. Can't use it until [insert date]

8. Gimme some TRUTH!!!!!!!
You can use some structural elements now (kind of)
header, footer
nav, aside, figure
time, details, mark

9. Before

10. After

11. HTML 5 - <canvas>
Dynamic graphics using scripting (usually JavaScript)
First implemented by Apple, now in most browsers
Accessibility!

12. HTML 5 - forms
Do what people really need to do without scripting, so ...
easier to write
controls look the same across web sites
less to download
built-in validation

13. Video (currently)
<object width="425" height="344">
<param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LtfQg4KkR88&hl=en
&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LtfQg4KkR88&hl=en&f
s=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
allowfullscreen="true" width="425"
height="344"></embed>
</object>

14. Video (future)
<video src="video.ogv"
controls
autoplay
poster="poster.jpg"
width="320" height="240">
<a href="video.ogv">Download movie</a>
</video>
Let's check some out!

15. Video politics
Accessibility
Most Video is not free to make or use
Ogg/Theora is (in Opera/Firefox)
Video politics http://tr.im/gBHT
OMS video http://tr.im/gBHQ

16. Ta very much, mwah mwah
brucel@opera.com
www.brucelawson.co.uk
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