About the HTML5 Web Camp Belgium

During this half-day event on April 6th 2011, we brought sessions from the HTML5 umbrella of technologies.

We welcomed several Belgian partners to present cases on how they are implementing HTML5 today, including speakers from Netlog, LBi, These Days, Ferranti, ...

You can find all session recordings available for download or on-demand viewing in the overview below.

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Location-aware shouting

Speaker: Frank Desmettre, Netlog

HTML5 offers several solutions for augmenting the experience of users on the web. One of these solutions is providing an accurate location of a user. Most of today's smartphones already support the technique of requesting your location through GPS but now an HTLM5 compatible browser can also pinpoint your location based on the IP of your device and nearby wireless access points.

At Netlog we've been using the Geolocation API to add location information to user messages (shouts) both on the web version and the mobile site. This location is used to place them on a map that can be easily navigated using HTML5. This way we enable users to find out what's going on around them or on a location of their choice.

How Object-Oriented JavaScript can help your HTML5 site

Speakers: Pieter Helsen and Bram Verdyck, These Days

We all know that we now have a new Canvas element and some other very cool HTML5 tags, but how do you get to implementing these correctly? The www.frameratefest.nl site for example, is a mere 200 lines of HTML. How is this possible? Say Hello to OO JavaScript.
By using the Frameratefest site These Days will explain how this concept has helped develop the site. We'll dive into code!

WebSockts on Fire

Speaker: Jef Claes, Ferranti

While the WebSockets API specification is not stable yet, various browser vendors have already implemented a prototype in their latest browser versions. Microsoft released their WebSockets prototype in December 2010. While there is no native implementation of WebSockets in IE9 just yet, for now they are providing a solution which works cross-browser, relying on a Silverlight client. Server-side a Windows Communication Foundation server is made available, which implements the latest version of the WebSockets protocol.

In this session, Jef covers the WebSockets fundamentals, demonstrate a proof of concept that could be used in various fire department web applications and deep-dive into the code of this proof of concept.

Creating cross-browser designs with CSS3 and jQuery in a SCRUM methodology

Speaker: Tim Vermaelen, LBi

As today's web applications are growing in complexity, making them cross-browser is still key to success. Since history of web design we've seen all kinds of techniques that tackle browser issues. Still, they are very time consuming and expensive. This presentation will give you a quick look on what's possible these days with CSS3 and jQuery and how you can save time creating cross-browser web applications. Throw away half of your HTML code, half of your background images and start using more flexible techniques. This session is going to be based on a case of a big Belgian company, to be shown during the session.

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