This is the first meeting of the HTML5 Denver Users Group:
6:00 - 7:00: Introducing HTML5 Canvas, by David Geary
7:00 - 7:30: Appetizers (catered by McCormick's)
7:30 - 9:00: Tomorrow's Tech Today: HTML5, by Scott Davis
6:00 - 7:00: Introducing HTML5 Canvas
Before the web, software developers implemented what we now refer to as desktop applications, using powerful graphics APIs that gave them the ability to program pretty much anything they could imagine. Then along came browsers with virtually no standard graphics support at all. Enter boring web applications, and dull work for developers.
But now, with HTML5 Canvas, developers have a powerful graphics API that lets them develop mind-blowing applications. Now you can implement desktop-like applications that run in a browser. Tonight, we'll see how.
This talk is a demo-fueled, fast-paced introduction to HTML5 Canvas. You'll get an overview of the Canvas API, and see how you can use it to draw, manipulate images, and implement sprite-based animation. You will get a feel for what you can do with this powerful API, and you'll get a basic understanding of how to harness that power.
About David Geary
David is the founder of Clarity Training, where he teaches software developers to implement web applications using HTML5, JavaServer Faces, and Google Web Toolkit.
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David is the author of 6 Java books, four of which are best-sellers in their respective categories, including one of the best-selling Java book series of all time, Graphic Java. David is currently writing Core HTML5 for Prentice-Hall.
David has worked on several open-source projects, and was the second committer for the venerable Struts web application framework. David served on Sun expert groups, helping to define technologies such as the JSP tag library, and JavaServer Faces. David is also a prolific speaker who has spoken at hundreds of conferences, and is a three-time JavaOne Rock Star.
7:30 - 9:00: Tomorrow's Tech Today: HTML 5
As software engineers, we take comfort in the idea of concrete specifications. As web developers, our hearts are either broken (frequently!), or we recognize the W3C's role is a delicate balance of leading the browser developers in new and exciting directions while, in their own words, "paving over the cow paths" of existing, de facto standards.
HTML 5 offers dramatic new improvements for page organization, offering out-of-the-box support for elements like header, footer, nav, section, and article. HTML 5 adds native support for form features such as placeholder text, autocomplete, autofocus, and validation. Additionally, there are a host of new form elements available (email, url, number, range, date, and search) that gracefully degrade in "classic" web browsers -- IE, I'm looking at you.
In this talk, you won't be subjected to discussions about the features that will appear in some distant future release of a web browser. Instead, you'll see the HTML 5 features that are already being used by Google, Apple, and others. You'll see the features that are supported by today's browsers, ready for you to use right now.
About Scott Davis
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training and consulting company that that specializes in leading-edge technology solutions like HTML 5, NoSQL, Groovy, and Grails.
Scott has been writing about web development for over 10 years. His books include JBoss at Work (O'Reilly), The Google Maps API (Pragmatic Bookshelf), GIS for Web Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf), Groovy Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf), and Getting Started with Grails (InfoQ). Scott is also the author of two popular article series at IBM developerWorks -- Mastering Grails and Practically Groovy.
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