San Francisco Java, PHP, and HTML5 user groups hosted an event on May 11th, 2010 on HTML5 with three amazing speakers: Brad Neuberg from Google, Giorgio Sardo from Microsoft, and Peter Lubbers from Kaazing. In this first of the three videos, Brad Neuberg from Google (formerly an HTML5 advocate and currently a Software Engineer on the Google Buzz team) explains why HTML5 matters – to consumers as well as developers! His overview of HTML5 included SVG/Canvas rendering, CSS transforms, app-cache, local databases, web workers, and much more. He also identified the scope and practical implications of the changes that are coming along with HTML5 support in modern browsers. This event was organized by Marakana, Michael Tougeron from Gamespot, and Bruno Terkaly from Microsoft. Microsoft was the host and Marakana, Gamespot, Medallia, TEKsystems, and Guidewire Software sponsored the event.

Alex Russell, Ian Fette Mobile and desktop are converging on HTML5 as a strong, portable base for delivering rich experiences. Come learn about the future of HTML5, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript that will help you build better, richer apps even quicker.

With all this talk about HTML5 not being complete until 2022, many people disregard it entirely – which is a huge mistake. In fact, there are a handful of HTML5 features that we can use in all our projects right now! Simpler, cleaner code is always a excellent thing. In today’s video quick tip, I’ll show you a handful of options.

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Adobe VP Paul Gubbay briefly demonstrates making an animation in Adobe Edge; turning it into an app using PhoneGap; converting Flash Professional animation to HTML5; running CSS Shaders; and exporting “liquid layouts” from InDesign to HTML-based publications.

A brief overview of how to use the Google Analytics interface. If you are new to Google Analytics or you’d like to pick up a few tips on how to use some of the different features, this video is a excellent place to start.

Use Adobe’s new Edge software to create HTML5 animations and say goodbye to Flash! Download Adobe Edge here: labs.adobe.com

In this video from HTML5 Dev Conf, world renowned JavaScript expert, author, creator of JSLint, and discoverer of JSON, Douglas Crockford is going to talk about effective programming style for JavaScript. JavaScript is one of the least perfect programming languages, and in this talk Douglas is going to show you some positive things you can do to reduce your error rate and enhance the beauty of your code.

Paul Irish gives a history and explanation about how low-level HTML5 entities work: the doctype, the charset, the parsing algorithm. He also covers attribute quoting, what values are valid IDs (snowmen and songs really work), and doctype personalization.