"Resource-Oriented HTML5 Presentations" and "Polymer : Less JS, More Righteous"

6 pm : "Resource-Oriented HTML5 Presentations" by Brian Sletten

7 pm: Dinner and Networking

7:30 pm: "Polymer : Less JS, More Righteous" by Brian Sletten

"Resource-Oriented HTML5 Presentations" by Brian Sletten

There are a variety of HTML5-based slide systems out there these days. While we are starting to see WYSIWYP (What You See is What You Present) content generation systems, for the most part, this means authoring slides in HTML. It's true, some of these tools support Markdown, but there's usually a conversion process between editing and viewing. As someone who speaks publicly regularly, I want the best of all worlds. I want lightweight, easily rendered, modular, reusable, re-stylable slides that can leverage arbitrary resource-oriented requests, Font-Awesome, D3.js, WebGL, etc. Oh, and they also look righteous when they print.

This talk will introduce you to a homegrown but open source presentation system that provides all of these benefits.

"Polymer : Less JS, More Righteous" by Brian Sletten

Do you remember a time when being a Web developer didn't mean trying to cope with endless streams of largely unmaintainable JavaScript? Do you remember the declarative Web? What if there were a modern platform of declarative, reusable, componentized, extensible standards-based gadgetry backed by polyfills you don't have to maintain so it works across all major browsers?

Polymer is a young but promising platform offering all of this and more. It takes the position that "Everything is an Element" and runs with it. Declarative (shared and custom) elements are available with sandboxed CSS and Shadow DOMs so that they can be encapsulated and reused. A communication mechanism allows third party elements to interact with each other and additional Web-oriented resources. A lower compatibility layer level exposes the APIs expected by the platform via polyfills for browsers that might not support all of the features. The combination of these ideas yields a promising future of declarative, reusable Web user interface development that isn't tied to pure JavaScript frameworks that come in and out of fashion like the tides.