Doctypehtml.in Conference, Ahmedabad — 5th Feb

Hello,

It was Friday — last day of the week, of course. I came home to Ahmedabad around 9:00 PM.

I’d planned to attend a conference in Ahmedabad on Saturday, with the agenda of introducing and using HTML5 and CSS3.

From a simple web designer to a full web developer, it was helpful to everyone, I think. 🙂

I reached at 9:30, and after a simple registration process, the first talk was on HTML5 by Kiran Jonnalagadda — good, and covered the basic uses of HTML5. After the talk there was something interesting: on the event’s registration website, doctypehtml5.in, they’d been storing everyone’s user agent, and based on that they made a chart of how many people were using which browser.

It was interesting — most people were using Firefox, Chrome, Safari, IE8, IE9, and Opera, and the fun part was that a few had used IE6. Yeah, I know it’s strange to use IE6 nowadays, but some people still do. 😛

Midway through the presentations I learned all the slides were made in HTML5, so there was no PPT involved at all.

After that we had a short tea break, then a CSS3 presentation by Rahul Gonsalves. It was nice — he explained a lot of the new features of CSS3 alongside HTML5. Very cool, and something we should use in our projects too. 🙂 He covered many great topics in CSS3 & HTML5. This is a great site for CSS3: 24ways.org.

After that, I know everyone hears this and groans, but I’ll write it anyway — there was a presentation on IE9 by Sandeep Alur from Microsoft. He explained the new features of IE9, and gave a demo of IE9 + Windows 7 and how well it performed together.

After the lunch break, we had a session on HTML5 multimedia — video, audio, and other cool features — given by Sanjay Bhangar. He’s been working on an open-source project called pad.ma for the past three years. Worth a visit, since they use HTML5 extensively. He explained how to use video, audio, and some of the relevant APIs, and demoed his project — very nice, with features like sending a 10-minute clip from a 1-hour video to a friend, among others.

Finally, we had a presentation on geolocation and offline cache storage by Dhaval Trivadi. He explained how to build these into your own applications, and introduced some new mobile/iPad frameworks like jQuery Mobile and jQTouch. jQTouch was nice — it turns your browser window into an emulator.

Overall, the seminar was great. I enjoyed it a lot.

Thank you.