DocType HTML5, Hyderabad

DocType HTML5 is a one day conference on HTML5, CSS3 and related technologies. The Hyderabad version of the event happened on 23-Jan-2011 at IIIT, Hyderabad. Since the event was organized in an educational institution, the student turnaround was huge. Almost 75% of the participants were students from IIIT-H or from other colleges. The organizers had to arrange for parallel sessions in the very last minute because of the overcrowd. That means a speaker should give the same session twice and they did very well. Overall it was a good experience – learnt a lot of new things, refreshed the things which I already know. 

New Ideas in HTML5

Kiran Jonnalagadda (@jackerhack) from HasGeek started the day with a session on “New Ideas in HTML5”. He gave a brief intro to HTML5 and discussed about Semantic markups, DocType declarations in HTML5. He also discussed about the Postel’s law and how it is adopted by modern day browsers. Shall link to the presentation once I get it. I have used Thinking Space – a mind mapping application for Android to capture the session and here it is.

CSS3 and Presentation

The session on CSS3 and Presentation was delivered by Shwetank Dixit from Opera. He discussed some of the sexy features of CSS3. Some of the properties include – font-face, border-radius, transition, text-shadow, box-shadow, selectors, transforms, etc.

HTML5 in IE9 (Sponsor session)

Harish Ranganathan from Microsoft gave a session on HTML5 features supported in IE9. He also talked about the new tools which are introduced in IE9 to ease the developer’s task. Microsoft was the platinum sponsor for the event.

Multimedia Kit

The next session was delivered by Parashumram from Microsoft. His style of delivery was awesome. The presentation which had fancy animations includes canvas, video, audio tags of HTML5. He also briefed about support for SVG in HTML5. View his presentation here.

Geolocation, Offline and Mobile

Dhaval Trivedi from SourceBits was the next one to give a session on Geolocation, Offline storage and mobile. He clarified that Geolocation is not a HTML5 feature but a related technology. He also discussed how to add support for platforms which don’t have a native support for Geolocation APIs. Then, he briefed about some of the dos and don'ts of offline storage. Performance tips for mobile were also useful.

Accessibility

The last session of the data was delivered by Shewatank again. He focused on the need for making the site accessible for differently-abled persons. He talked about how screen readers work and some of the standards available on accessibility. 

-- Varun