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The Zen of HTML5: London Web presentation

January 26, 2011 · by Bruce Lawson

Last week, 120 Londoners were locked in a room and made to listen to me talk about HTML5, specifically its origins and design principles.

Here's a video.

Video on Vimeo

The Zen of HTML5 by Bruce Lawson from Opera from Nathan O'Hanlon on Vimeo.

And here's the audio in open Ogg Vorbis format, courtesy of Christian Heilmann and the marvellous archive.org.

Thanks to Nathan O'Hanlon of London Web for the invitation and taking the video, Web Directions @media and the other sponsors, and to everyone for coming.

HTML5 resources

HTML5's friends: JavaScript APIs

HTML5 <video> resources

<canvas> tutorials

All dev.Opera's HTML5 and CSS 3 resources.

Readers' comments 9

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  • Mikkel Brevik MehusWednesday, January 26, 2011 11:28:12 AM

    Thanks. Interesting video and nice list of resources I'll be having a thorough look at.
  • Unregistered userWednesday, January 26, 2011 1:16:10 PM

    Anonymous writes: Why I have to enable Flash in order to see video? This is so HTML4ish ;-)
  • HurrWednesday, January 26, 2011 6:00:38 PM

    Very interesting video. Thanks for this :smile:
  • DillonThursday, January 27, 2011 1:43:20 AM

    Originally posted by anonymous:

    Why I have to enable Flash in order to see video? This is so HTML4ish ;-)


    Vimeo supports the html5 video element, just not in its embed. Also they only support h.264 in their video.
  • pepkin88Friday, January 28, 2011 6:54:28 PM

    PUDDI PUDDI in videos and no-one laughed? Crowd, I am disappoint.
    Nice presentation.
  • Unregistered userMonday, February 7, 2011 10:18:12 PM

    Anonymous writes: Really enjoyed this. Great to see somebody spell out the WHATWG principles.
  • Unregistered userMonday, February 7, 2011 10:57:26 PM

    Silvia Pfeiffer writes: Your WebVTT slide contains time codes of the old WebSRT format - they should now be dots instead of commas separating the millisecs. :-) Really really enjoyed the talk though!!
  • Unregistered userSunday, February 20, 2011 11:04:32 PM

    biank writes: muito legauzinho tai gostei
  • Unregistered userMonday, February 21, 2011 12:48:28 AM

    dadbunt writes: i love my country

About this article

Published inODIN blog
DateJanuary 26, 2011
AuthorBruce Lawson
Tagsbrowsers, W3C, One Web, HTML5, Standards
OriginalInternet Archive