Sessions at jQuery Conference: SF 2011 about HTML5 on Sunday 17th April

Everyone wants to jump into HTML5 but how do you use the cool features of this new specification while ensuring older browsers render your web pages as expected? This is where polyfills and shims come in.

In the session, you’ll learn how to use specially crafted JavaScript and CSS code that emulate HTML5 features so that you can take advantage of HTML5 today without breaking your sites in older browsers.”

In this talk we will step through some of the exciting new HTML5 JavaScript APIs at a high level and cover how to use jQuery to interact with them. Specifically, we'll look at patterns for working with new HTML5 events, and accessing some of the new event properties that we can use to make our web apps behave like desktop apps.