HTML5 Feature Detection and Fallback with Pamela Fox

About the Talk

HTML5 seduces us with a wide array of shiny new features that we’d love to start using in our websites immediately. Unfortunately, these features don’t work in every browser, and even when they do “work," they don’t work the same way or at the same speed. How do you detect them? How do you fallback when you realize they don’t work? How do you know if it’s worth your time to even try?

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These are the questions that Pamela hopes to answer in this talk, by showing real world examples from hybrid web apps and desktop sites, using features in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and even device hardware. Unequal feature distribution is and will be the reality on the web for the foreseeable future. Equip yourself now with the tools and techniques that will help you build a future-proof, future-thinking website.

About the Speaker

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Pamela Fox loves to learn, teach, create, and every combination of those. During the day, she works as a frontend engineer at Coursera, working to improve the future of online education. At night and on the weekends, she teaches web development classes for the GirlDevelopIt San Francisco chapter. Before that, she worked in Google Developer Relations, and graduated from USC's Computer Science Department (Go Trojans!).

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Yelp kindly invites us to use their venue and provides awesome drinks and food. We appreciate their hospitality and your cooperation.

Schedule

6:00 Doors open — mingle and enjoy pizza, beer, and other beverages

7:00p Welcome notes and Introduction

7:10p Pamela's Talk and Q&A

8:10/15p Prize giveaways * and lightning talks **

• If you are interested in doing a lightning talk, send the organizers your proposal.

** You must be at the venue to qualify for prizes.

This event will be recorded. We will post the recording as soon as it is available, typically within a week after the event. Follow@sfhtml5 (https://twitter.com/sfhtml5) or visit this page for the announcement.