YUI Theater — Tantek Çelik: "HTML5: Right Here, Right Now" (56 min.)

By Unknown November 24, 2010

In one of the outstanding sessions of YUIConf 2010, author and standards expert Tantek Çelik, formerly of Technorati, discusses the current state of HTML5 specifications and their readiness for use in shipping web applications. (Tantek also joined a special YUIConf panel discussion on the future of frontend engineering.)

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Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Elaine Wherry, Thomas Sha, Joe Hewitt, Ryan Dahl, Tantek Çelik, and Douglas Crockford: YUIConf 2010 Panel Discussion: The Future of Frontend Engineering — Moderated by Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith, this distinguished panel explored the near future of the discipline at at a time of great change. Panelists included Elaine Wherry, founder and frontend architect at Meebo; Douglas Crockford, JavaScript architect at Yahoo!; Tantek Çelik, technologist and author; Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js; Joe Hewitt of Facebook, creator of Firebug and one of the most downloaded mobile applications of all time (Facebook for iOS); Thomas Sha, YUI founder at Yahoo!.
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