Sessions at jQuery Conference: SF 2011 about HTML5

Sunday 17th April 2011

• Filling the HTML5 & CSS3 Gaps with Polyfills and Shims

  by Rey Bango

  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.”

  • CSS3
  • HTML5

  At 11:15am to 12:00pm, Sunday 17th April

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• Understanding jQuery Events, and working new HTML5 APIs

  by Boaz Sender

  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.

  • HTML5
  • jQuery

  At 5:30pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 17th April

  Coverage slide deck