August Event: Design for the Future

London Web Standards is pleased to announce our next event: Design for the Future with Andy Hume and Richard Rutter. The event will take place on the 16th of August.

Standards we’ve been reading about for years—HTML5, CSS3, WAI-ARIA—are finally making their way into all of the major browsers. At the same time, more and more people are accessing the Web using mobile and tablet devices.

This month at London Web Standards, Richard Rutter (@clagnut) and Andy Hume  (@andyhume) will discuss using emerging standards to create websites that are beautiful and engaging across a range of devices.

A Progressive Web, Andy Hume

The idea of progressive enhancement isn’t new, but the way we approach it needs to evolve. New devices such as those powered by iOS and Android are upon us, just as a throng of emerging technologies like HTML5 and CSS 3 are ready for action. With every day that goes by people are experiencing the web in new, different, undreamed of, impossible ways.  Exciting as this sounds on paper, how do we build websites within that impossibly complex and constantly shifting landscape?

The Future of Typography, Richard Rutter

At no other time has typography been taken so seriously by so many involved in the web, and that means there’s an awful lot of change and innovation to keep up with if you want to stay on the cutting edge of online type. This presentation will cover recent proposals and additions to CSS 3, from ligatures to hyphenation, synthesis to capitalisation, and much in between. It will cover the reasoning behind the new aspects of CSS 3, and reintroduce older properties which only now are becoming implemented and useful. The future of web typography is looking bright.

dConstruct Ticket Winner and UX Questions

We have a winner! Congratulation to Tanya Ahmed, who has won a ticket to this year’s dConstruct for submitting a UX Question for this month’s event: Getting Started in UX.

If you didn’t win, you can still purchase a ticket for only £125. The word on the street is that they are going fast.

Congratulations are also due to the 10 people whose UX questions have been selected. They will all be on hand to ask their questions at the event.

• Andrew Sawers
• Simon Cox
• Rupert Bowater
• Patrick Sansom
• David Powers
• Katarzyna Stawarz
• Clive Walker
• Richard Tape
• Rai Eastham
• Matt Bee

HTML5 Pub Lunch

Daniel Appelquist (W3C TAG member and Senior Technology Strategist at Vodafone) invites you to a pub lunch this Friday along with Doug Schepers, Web Standards Specialist at the W3C.

This is a chance for a relaxed chat and Q&A about the future of HTML and related Web standards. Please note this is not a sponsored event so you’ll have to buy your own lunch. We only supply the Web standards goodness.

For numbers, just say if you want to come: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6577146