Yesterday I attended the AWDG HTML5 & CSS 3 workshop presentation. What set out to be a small intimate workshop ended up being one of the most popular events in the group’s history with almost 150 people in attendance. It’s very encouraging to see the Atlanta web community showing so much interest in making the web better.

The presentation was divided in two parts, HTML5 and CSS3, and served as a good introduction to the what, when and why of these two technologies.

HTML5 was presented by Moses Ngone, a good friend and a fellow developer. He started by talking about the state of the web, the history of HTML, and everything else from DOCTYPE declarations to H.264 licensing.

The CSS3 part was presented by Aaron Walter of MailChimp fame. Aaron introduced CSS3, its main advantages and its pitfalls. The talk went from the most popular features like rounded corners and text shadow, to some very impressive demonstrations of opacity, rgb(a), selectors and transitions.

Here are all the slides in PDF format and here ‘s a list of all the resources mentioned during the talk on Moses’ site.

Thanks to Danny Mustafic of Hungry Bird Creative for bringing his awesome video equipment and capturing the whole event. It should be up in the AWDG site soon, but you can get a preview here. And more thanks to J and Farhan for putting together yet another great event.

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