Sessions tagged as HTML5
Comparing Web Video Technologies, from Flash to HTML5 to Silverlight
Location: Shiley Hall, Room 124
Flash is dead. Long live HTML5. Or not? There's a lot of misinformation spread by both standards and plug-in advocates. In this session, you learn the benefits and disadvantages to deploying online video with HTML5, Adobe Flash Player, and Microsoft Silverlight. Topics include codec decisions (AVC/H.264, Theora, and others), licensing, deployment scenarios (progressive download, adaptive streaming, and more). While Robert is a full-time consultant specializing with Flash-based solutions, more and more of his work is encompassing a broader range of online video technologies. Robert's discussion starts with his recent blog post, http://tinyurl.com/whyflash.
Standards-Based Mobile Web Development
Location: Shiley Hall, Room 301
Learn a standards-based approach to Mobile Web development that uses open standards and open-source software to create usable, adaptive and discoverable Mobile Web applications for smartphones and mass-market devices. Best practices for the Desktop Web simply do not apply to Mobile Web development. Mobile is a totally new medium. A standards-based approach to Mobile Web development produces a usable, adaptive and discoverable Mobile Web experience for featurephones and smartphones. This session discusses the importance of standards-based Mobile Web development including an overview of fundamentals, design principles, content adaptation, usability, interoperability and industry players. We explore how developers and digital publishers implement mobility standards and best practices to bring their content to the massive audience of users of Web-enabled mobile devices.