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HTML 5 IS ALIVE! - NOW FULL

Sep 17
Thu 6:00 PM
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Estimated attendance
 191  people attended.
4.50 4.5037

Who organized?
John Ballinger

The Auckland Web Meetup and Microsoft would like to invite you to this very special meetup on HTML5.

This exciting event will be bringing in Giorgio Sardo from the USA Internet Explorer team and Robert O'Callahan form the Mozilla group and members from his team to talk about whats new and how the HTML5 standard is progressing.

On this night we will be feating a talk from both Microsoft and Mozilla but will be finishing the night with a panel discussion which will also includes Shift's creative director Ross Howard.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thanks for everyones support this month, we have had a huge amount of emails wanting to assist and sponsor meetup which has been a huge help in keeping this event running.

We would also like to thank this month.
Microsoft for Sponsoring.
Pizza hut for assisting with food.
Epic Beer
Media Design School
And everyone else that helps makes this event happen!

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Talk about this Meetup

  • Anselm Bradford
    Posted Sep 18, 2009 3:11 AM
    Anselm Bradford
    Posted a recap here: http://blog.anselmbradford.... I did this from memory, so please comment on post if I left anything major out
  • Keri Henare
    Posted Sep 17, 2009 11:58 PM
    Keri Henare
    Great as always!
  • andrew
    Posted Sep 17, 2009 10:55 PM
    andrew
    my first web meetup. enjoyed it. ps if you have any asp.net dev roles going, pls check out my cv http://docs.google.com/Doc?... thanks
  • Pre-Meetup comments below
  • Clint Woolly
    Posted Sep 17, 2009 1:12 PM
    Clint Woolly
    @Ryan likewise.. and also looking forward to it!
  • Posted Aug 27, 2009 3:28 PM
    Ryan Ashton
    This will be my first meet up - looking forward to it

Who attended?

  • 191 attendees
    • “ Another great meetup - always good to see Robert @ Mozilla talk =) ”
    • Dave Broome (+1 guest)
      “ The best thing about blockbuster presentations like this month's (headlined by The ROC) is that it brings everyone out. The vibe was great, no small feat in a beer-starved environment. ”
    • “ Fascinating to have reps from Microsoft and Mozilla in one room. The Microsoft sotry was more about PR, though they showed some nice tools. The Mozilla guys were more compelling from a developer's perspective. Overall, it was more about demos and browser release plans than about HTML5 itself. But still a good night.. ”
    • “ good to see what's coming, and for the IE & FF guys to duke it out ”
    • “ Fantastic content, was great having a cross spectrum of browser representatives (moz, ie etc). ”
    • Junior Madureira (+1 guest)
      “ Still a long road to go...Not using it yet. ”
    • “ Excellent, entertaining, great professional speakers, totally worth going. ”
    • robbie (+2 guests)
      “ HTML5 <video/>? Why reinvent the wheel as a square? What a joke. Flash did all that 4 years ago. ”
    • Uwe
      “ Thanks heaps for organizing that event. Very good talks, very funny. Thanks for pizza and beer. ”
    • “ Good balance of talks - Microsoft vs Mozilla heh, heh - but by 9 a few people were bolting out the door. Maybe food at start or a shorter break? New venue will be good - MDS was packed. ”
    • “ Good insight to web standards from two key companies. Very strong on the developer front, would like to see/hear more on the design front. ”
    • “ Very interesting. The mozilla guy is just fasinating. Microsoft was good, but talked a little long ”
    • “ Great speakers, interesting topics, a lot of fun - will be back next time ”
    • “ Great presenters and very insightful about HTML 5 features and browser implementation ”
    • “ Great session, not only HTML5 but IE8 vs Firefox! It was a big meetup - standing room only which is about the only criticism - not enough seats. ”
    • “ Learnt more about HTML 5 than I knew before. ”
    • “ Microsoft guy was a bit disappointing. Spent more time goading the Firefox people and hyping IE8 than talking about HTML5. Firefox people were good. ”
    • “ Great speaker and a real hub of activity for the NZ web community. Looking forward to the new venue as it was tiring standing at the back for that long. ”
    • “ It was great ”
    • Darko Zoroja (+1 guest)
    • Ross Howard (+1 guest)
    • Mike Clist (+1 guest)
    • Nick Fracture (+1 guest)