Sessions at Fluent about HTML5 on Wednesday 30th May

We all know how far JavaScript has come in the last 3 years, but what amazing things can be done with it? New capabilities in HTML5 open up an entire new suite of applications for the web. This session will cover a range of topics dealing with performance, bleeding edge multimedia, file io and binary data, and more!

In this session, we're going to show CocoonJS, a technology that enables native-like HTML5 apps on mobile. Through a couple of demos and showing live javascript code, attendees will be able to see the process of testing and creating both iOS and Android apps using CocoonJS. Learn how to easily deploy and monetize HTML5 apps on CocoonJS.

An overview of the new role that browsers are adopting and the technologies that are helping that happen (Canvas, WebGL, Gamepad, Mouse Lock, Full Screen, WebSockets, etc). This talk will also briefly cover some related technologies like Node.js and mDNS.

HTML5 has delivered on the promise to make building mobile apps work seamlessly across devices and operating systems. But developers looking to build applications still have to code HTML, JavaScript and CSS by hand, often laboriously rebuilding features that exist in native platforms without the benefit of tooling that native platforms offer.

The rise of HTML5 and CSS3 has been exciting, but it’s also made browser support infinitely more complex. Modernizr made it easy for developers to manage these complexities, and still take advantage of the many great new features. Learn what lessons in design and development Modernizr teaches us about the next generation of websites and applications, and the importance of great API design.

HTML5; it’s new, it’s awesome, and it’s powerful, but can it take down the champ of video distribution, Flash? Which technology's got the ability to bring cat video to the next level. This talk will cover the many challenges of both HTML5 and YouTube adapting to change video distribution on the web.