Apologies that this post is fairly nonsensical. I've put my raw NZ TechEd 2011 notes up here for my reference. I'd like to think that I'll refine them over time, but that probably won't be the case.
Content + Consumption Device Why not do the best presentation we can get: Scared? Boss said not too. Works everywhere. Defensible Space (mobile apps, tools for devs) - known users Lack of support is OK What is a PolyFill? Try not to use UA sniffing, instead feature detect: Modernizr does that
Dependable Features
contenteditable 39 box shadows, no good reason CSS drop-shadows without images text-align: centaur input autofocus & placeholder css3 Pattern Gradient CSS3 Please Gradient scanner Isotope chop slider
Experimental Features
progress bars web workers to offload logic history.pushstate file api (information about a file that someone is trying to send you). - DropMocks <input type="file" accept="images/*" multiple> <input speech>Edge features
CSS Mixins (SASS, Less) regions - column 1, 2, and 3. Just flow the content between them. Polyfill - A way to support HTML 5 features in older browsers using JavaScript shims. HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills Everything added to the page slows it down. caniuse.com jsperf & browserscope chromestatus.com HTML5 Rocks Mozilla MDN