HTML Experiments: Speak The Web, Sheffield

February 12, 2010 · by Bruce Lawson

I was privileged to be invited to speak at the inaugural Speak The Web "gig" conference, in Sheffield on Monday 8 February. I demoed lots of HTML5, especially video.

The presentation is available on Slideshare:

Slides on SlideShare

The demos I showed were

The video demonstrations were from the newly-published article Introduction to HTML5 video and Accessible HTML Video with JavaScripted captions.

Some other useful resources:

HTML5 validator
HTML5 outliner
the author's version of the HTML5 specification (much shorter than the main version and generated from the same source, but without all the parsing rules and algorithms for browser manufacturers and other implementors)
HTML5 Doctor (I'm a co-curator of this site)
An article called Designing a blog with HTML that covers some of the new HTML5 markup elements. (Two articles on my personal blog cover it in much more detail: Redesigning with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA and Marking up a blog with HTML 5 (part 2).)

Readers' comments 7

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lucideerFriday, February 12, 2010 5:35:27 PM
Originally posted by Bruce Lawson:

The presentation is available on Slideshare

I do wonder why so many presentations on open web standards are presented exclusively in Flash... particularly from the only browser (that I'm aware of) supporting the CSS2 presentation media type...

I thought HTML5 was moving towards a plugin-free web...
random414Friday, February 12, 2010 9:06:36 PM
Originally posted by "Bruce Lawson":

Two articles on my personal blog cover it in much more detail: Redesigning with HTML 5 and WAI-ARIA and Marking up a blog with HTML 5 (part 2).

The last two links provided are not working.
lucideerFriday, February 12, 2010 9:41:49 PM
P.S. Thanks for this great list of links btw, very nice.
Charles SchlossFriday, February 12, 2010 9:53:03 PM
DavidFriday, February 12, 2010 9:57:25 PM
Very interesting... I really might think about starting to learn it.

"...We strongly suggest that you have Internet Explorer 4.0. ..."
PurdiSunday, February 14, 2010 8:33:29 PM
Originally posted by lucideer:

I thought HTML5 was moving towards a plugin-free web...

Oh look! More trolling!

MOVING TOWARDS, yes. Doesn't mean it's ready and supported by most browsers yet.
Andreas BovensMonday, February 15, 2010 5:27:01 PM
Originally posted by random414:

The last two links provided are not working.

Fixed.