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HTML5 Talk at FIS in Malvern

I attended the inaugural meeting of the Philadelphia Google Technology User's Group (PGTUG) last night. The content of the meeting was a talk given by @kurrik, a Google Programs Engineer, on new HTML5 features. I was the only attendee brave (or uncool) enough to sit in the front row. While I am an admin by definition, I am a coder at heart. For evidence,  I can submit thousands of Transactions-SQL and Powershell scripts. Even so, web development isn't my 'thing'. It was interesting to see what the development community is up to. This was particularly true since the talk was Chrome centric. I drink plenty of Microsoft Kool-Aid as it is. The talk was fast-paced, with 68 slides in less than 90 minutes, including demos. The talk was nominally about items in the HTML5 specification. While competing products were mentioned, it might be more accurate to say that the talk was on Chrome's implementation of certain HTML5 features. The talk did not get bogged down in det...