O'Reilly Media: HTML5 and CSS3

Christopher Schmitt at CSS Summit 2012 - Jul 31-Aug 2 2012

2012-07-31T02:19:00-08:10

Join author Christopher Schmitt (CSS Cookbook, HTML5 Cookbook) as he hosts the 4th annual online, live CSS Summit. Over 3 three days, speakers cover topics like CSS3, Responsive Web + Mobile Design, Preprocesses (Sass, Compass, Coffeescript) and much more.

Webcast: Building Offline Web Apps with HTML5 - Jul 19 2012

2012-07-19T01:18:32-08:11

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

For years, the terms "web" and "online" have been intrinsically linked in people's minds. With HTML5, the web's dependency on a connection to the internet has been broken. Web apps can now run offline in modern browsers thanks to HTML5 support for client-side storage of relational data, key/value data, and static assets.

What will be covered?

Web Storage
Web SQL Database
Offline Application Cache
Indexed DB
Offline data sync strategies
Fallback techniques for older browsers

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for web designers and developers who are interested in adding offline support to web sites and web apps. A working familiarity with standard HTML and JavaScript is required.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Webcast: HTML5 Game Development - Jun 8 2012

2012-06-08T16:17:15-08:12

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Are you interested in learning about how to make HTML5 games with Impact? This webcast is a great way to get familiar with the Impact framework and get you started making HTML 5 games.

This webcast will cover:

The framework
How to get up and running
Workflows
Deploying a game to web, mobile and iOS

About Jesse Freeman

Jesse Freeman is a Technical Architect at Roundarch. With over 7 years of Flash development experience he has work for VW, Tommy Hilfiger, Heavy.com, MLB, the New York Jets, HBO and many more. Jesse was a traditional artist for most of his life until making the transition into interactive art and hasn't looked back since.

Jesse runs a Flash Meetup in New York City called Flash Happy Hour where other people interested in Flash/Flex/AIR/Web 2.0 are invited to kick back, have a few drinks, and make new friends. Jesse has also been a speaker at 360|Flex Camp. His blog, the Flash Art of War is "one of the oldest Flash military treaties in the world". From time to time Jesse dresses up as the Flash Bum (a homeless web developer) and goes out looking for work on the streets of NYC. You can follow the Flash Bum on twitter @jessefreeman.

When Jesse is not programming is he can be found photographing the world around him.

Marco Casario Presents "Mobile Web Applications with HTML5 and Phonegap" - Jun 4 2012

2012-06-04T15:18:23-08:13

Join author Marco Casario (Flex 4 Cookbook) as he illustrates the transition "from web to mobile devices with HTML5 web app or native applications against." This session will discuss the latest APIs and updates introduced in HTML5 (from webworkers, the session storage, from geolocation to media queries) and how using PhoneGap you can deliver Web apps for Apple iPhone OS and Android mobile devices.

Webcast: The Best of Velocity - Mobile Web HTML5 Performance Optimization - May 29 2012

2012-05-29T14:17:15-08:14

Duration: Approximately 100 minutes.

Cost: Free

In this two-part session by Maximiliano Firtman, you will learn in part-one How to deal with mobile browsers. Maximiliano discusess challenges on WPO measurement techniques over mobile browsers. How can we create accurate waterfall charts? Do emulators help? What about HTTP proxies? We are going to show live demos of HTTP waterfalls from mobile browsers and how to get them accurately.

In Part-two Maximiliano talks about WPO's impacting on mobile web. This session also gets into the well-known techniques for website's performance and how real mobile devices react to the most important ones. What are the big differences between desktop and mobile web performance? Why WPO has more impact on mobile environment? This session includes a brief overview about mobile web browsers today, what we should expect in this year and how to deal with pseudo-browsers, having millions of downloads at stores.

These sessions will get into real examples and their different behaviors in the most important mobile & tablet browsers, including platforms such as iOS, Android, webOS, BlackBerry, Symbian and other mid-end devices. We will see how new stuff in HTML5 and related-technologies can help our mobile websites to improve performance.

About Maximiliano Firtman

Firtman is a mobile and web developer, professor and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is Adobe Community Champion and author of many books, including "Programming the Mobile Web" published by O'Reilly Media in 2010 and the upcoming book "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running". He has a blog about mobile web development on www.mobilexweb.com

He is a professional in iOS development, mobile browsers, HTML5, mobile web 2.0, plus native Android and Java ME development.

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Webcast: Mobile web app HTML5 Stack - May 23 2012

2012-05-23T12:18:04-08:16

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Cost: Free

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2012-05-22T04:32:26-08:17

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Webcast: Advanced CSS Styling & Animation for Mobile Apps - May 17 2012

2012-05-17T12:19:09-08:19

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Smartphone owners have come to expect a highly polished user experience and they'll go elsewhere if you don't deliver. Fortunately, recent advancements in CSS provide web designers the tools to deliver 2D & 3D transformations, simple transitions, powerful animations, and other advanced visual effects.

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Webcast: jQuery Mobile: multiplatform HTML5 webapps - May 9 2012

2012-05-09T14:17:08-08:24

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Cost: Free

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He has a blog about mobile web development at mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website mobilehtml5.org.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including OSCON, Breaking Development Velocity Conference, Google Developer Day, Nokia Developer Days, Campus Party Europe and many other events around the world.

He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion yearly since 2006; Adobe Community Champion in 2011, and a Google recognition for being one of the most innovative mobile developers.