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

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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Other Recent YUI Theater Videos:

• Mark Kawakami: Finger Tips: Lessons Learned from Building a Touch-Based Experience — Mark Kawakami of Yahoo! Sports takes you through some lessons learned in building touch-based experiences for one of the most popular websites on the internet.
• Ross Harmes: Porting Flickr to YUI 3 — Ross Harmes is a Frontend Engineering Manager at Flickr. In this session, he discusses the process his team underwent in rewriting the Flickr front end layer using YUI 3, including performance and code-organization tips as well as other lessons learned.
• 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!.
• Philip Tellis: Measuring the Web with Boomerang — Philip Tellis, a long-time Yahoo! and performance expert, discusses the Boomerang open-source tool for measuring the performance of web sites.

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