More Microsoft HTML5 Web Camps Coming Soon!

The Microsoft HTML5 Web Camps are free, full-day events to help you get up to speed with HTML5 and related web standards. 

After the popular events in Massachusetts & NYC in June, Rachel Appel, G. Andrew Duthie and I will be running six more Web Camps in August and September:

• Farmington, CT – August 2nd – Registration
• Atlanta, GA –August 4th – Registration
• Chevy Chase, MD –August 23rd – Registration
• Malvern, PA – August 25th – Registration
• Tampa, FL – August 30th – Registration
• Ft. Lauderdale, FL – September 1st – Registration 

They’re all listed on the MSDN Events site and will soon be on the Microsoft Web Camps site as well.

What’s Being Covered?

Over the course of four sessions, we’ll introduce you to the next wave of web standards including HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript5, SVG, and more:

• HTML5
  • Semantic Markup, Audio, Video, Canvas, Geolocation, and more
• Cascading Style Sheets, Level 3 (CSS3)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
• ECMAScript5 and scripting techniques
• Internet Explorer 9
  • Standards support and testing
  • Performance
• Present and future of web standards
  • Internet Explorer 10
  • Emerging standards (e.g. WebSockets, IndexedDB, etc.)
• Developer options and tools
  • Libraries
  • IE9 Developer Tools
  • Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Web 4

We’ll also show you techniques and frameworks to help you get started today while still offering good experiences for non-modern browsers.

Hope to see you at the Web Camps!

-Chris