Mobile, HTML5 and the cross-platform promise

We all hear about HTML5 every day.

We all hear about mobile every day. What are the big challenges on mobile web today? What is the status of the mobile browser world? How can we create a UI that works offline and delivers a really fast experience to the user? What about compatibility between platforms? How can we detect user's context?

In this session we are covering techniques to create big applications for mobile browsers, how HTML5 can help us providing the right experience to the right context and what is WPO -Web Performance Optimization- for mobile devices.

This session will also give attendees a quick overview of what can be done using HTML5 on smartphones and tablets and what should they expect on performance, development time and interoperability with native code.

We are going to cover the status of HTML5, and lot of new stuff under its umbrella, on every main mobile platform. We are going to check what is actually HTML5 in the W3C standard, what is not and how about compability, what do you need today to create HTML5 experiences on mobile devices, the tablet ecosystem and what you really can do using HTML5.

Creating apps for store with HTML5 and PhoneGap will be also covered, mentioning challenges and advantages of using hybrids for apps, APIs available and what can be expected for the near future.