Sessions at Jfokus 2012 about HTML5

Monday 13th February 2012

• Building a web page with HTML5

  by Robert Nyman

  This tutorial will walk you through all the different facets of HTML5 and how to use them. From new HTML elements and what you can do with them to JavaScript APIs to dratically improve the web page experience, it will show you code and practical examples on how to utilize all these new possibilities.

  • HTML5

  At 1:30pm to 5:00pm, Monday 13th February

Tuesday 14th February 2012

• Client-side Storage: When & How

  by Pamela Fox

  With the increasing availability of HTML5 client-side storage APIs like localStorage and IndexedDB, web developers can choose to store application information locally. But what should you be storing, how long should you store it for, and what technology should you use?

  In this talk, I'll review the current storage APIs and libraries and give real world examples of how to use them across websites, mobile apps, and browser extensions both to improve performance and add functionality.

  • HTML5

  At 2:00pm to 2:50pm, Tuesday 14th February

• Dart Language and Modern Web Apps

  by David Chandler

  Modern Web apps are rich, snappy, and work offline and mobile, too. In this talk, we'll look at the frameworks and HTML5 features that make these possible and introduce Dart, a new language for structured Web programming. In particular, we'll take a look at the motivation for Dart, language syntax and features, the Dart Editor, using the Dart JS compiler, and improvements to the DOM. We'll take a look at several sample apps built with Dart and see how easy it is to use Dart with HTML5+CSS to create rich client applications.

  • Dart
  • HTML5

  At 2:00pm to 2:50pm, Tuesday 14th February

  Coverage liveblog link

• From Swing to HTML5 Canvas

  by Gerrit Grunwald

  Short overview of what you have be aware of when you try to create a HTML5 port of your custom Java Swing components. Unfortunately one could not simply convert the Swing component to HTML5 but with a little knowledge and fortune one could port most of the Java2D code to HTML5 Canvas. As an example a gauge from the Java Swing library "SteelSeries" will be ported to HTML5 Canvas.

  • Canvas
  • HTML5
  • Swing

  At 3:35pm to 3:50pm, Tuesday 14th February

Wednesday 15th February 2012

• HTML5 with Play Scala, CoffeeScript and Jade

  by Matt Raible

  This session shows you how to use some of the hottest technologies today to build a webapp, an API and a mobile application to track fitness workouts. Using HTML5 technologies (specifically geo and local storage), I'll show you how you can track the time, distance and music you listened to while exercising. Play with Scala is used for the backend and services, while CoffeeScript and Jade are used for the front-end templating and Ajax communication.

  This session will explain limitations encountered with HTML5 and discuss when native apps might work better.

  • CoffeeScript
  • HTML5
  • Play
  • Scala

  At 10:10am to 11:00am, Wednesday 15th February

  Coverage slide deck write-up