In a fit of inability-to-plan-ahead, and lured by the prospects of at the new venue we’ll be trying out (G5’s new offices at Franklin Crossing), I’ve decided to step off the BendTech talk sidelines and actually present at this month’s tech talk.
The topic-du-month is “HTML 5″ which, if you haven’t heard about it yet, is set to shake up the web in some pretty interesting ways. Why? Well, the current version of HTML (v4.01) was standardized almost 15 years ago, well before people were building applications in browsers. Thus, HTML is pretty good if all you want to do is pen an “old school” web page. But if you want to make an application, something like Google Maps or GMail… well, those apps were made possible not so much because of what HTML can do, but in spite of it. HTML 5 is a bumper-to-bumper overhaul of the HTML specification, and it introduces a slew of new technologies, many of which are targeted squarely at application developers.
I’ll be talking about leading a discussion about what these technologies are, doing some demos, and just generally prognosticating on what will happen when developers can stop worrying about how to implement a color picker widget, or draw a circle, or store some information on the user’s computer, and instead focus on solving the real problems.
So join us for a pint o’ geekiness this Tuesday at 5:30. Meetup details can be found here. As usual, there’s no charge, and while RSVPs are requested they’re not required.
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