Molly Holzschlag

Presentations

CSS for Developers

While CSS might be the Web's Lingua Franca of presentation and design, it's the Front End Developer who finds that he or she has to optimize CSS documents, manage multiple CSS documents across any number of actual Web pages, ensure that conflicts and errors are properly addressed and effectively work with multiple browser hacks, conditional comments and scripts related to browser compatibility.

In this session, learn tips, tricks and insights as to how to best approach the challenges of working with CSS for web sites and apps large and small.

HTML5 Killed XHTML2 (and the Mysterious Future of Markup)

It's late 2009. A deep silence runs through the hallowed halls of the W3C. I slip into a stairwell and watch through the window as the well-formed corpse of XHTML2 is wheeled slowly down the hall by hooded academics. Murder? Suicide? A million thoughts run through my mind even as my gut tells me the truth: It's HTML5 that's done in XHTML2. The evidence, I can show you. But what are the reasons for this shocking - some even say tragic - crime?

Come visit Molly as she shines a bright light into the shadowy corners of HTML5's future mission and how XHTML2 ended up dead before it even really began its life.

Open Web: Standards for a Rich Web Experience

While some are in the corner of the ring Flexing their muscles, others are shining in the silver lights that illuminate the contendors. A murmer goes up through the crowd as a mystery contender comes in, resplendent in a star trek t-shirt and comfy in crocks and shorts. Who the heck is this underfed kid, and just what have they done that makes 'em worthy of going for the knockout?

Why, it's the Open Web, whose firm foundation in HTML, style from CSS, interactivity from the DOM and JavaScript, along with a colorful spattering of video, audio, and super-duper powerful and accessible forms. Challenge the proprietary and see how standards can offer up the real champion for the Rich Web.

Web Standards for Web Applications: Half Day Seminar

For many years the web standards movement focused its energies on best practices for web sites. Few of us, if any, could have foreseen the rapid emergence of applications on the Web. As the Web moves more and more toward rich experiences, shared APIs and a myriad of open source and proprietary options, it makes for an exciting and innovative time! However, what happens when applications are built without consideration for universal access, scalability, maintenance, and innovative evolution?

To get a thoughtful reevaluation of how we work in the context of the web application, Molly will demonstrate how using best practices and standards provides us with a stable platform, upon which we can begin an application's evolution and nurture it for a long, healthy, creative and innovative lifecycle. You'll learn to choose the right infrastructure and framework, whether you're using web standards models (such as DOM and multi-modal CSS), the Adobe model (of Flex, Flash, and Actionscript), the Microsoft model (of Silverlight and XAML), or others.

You'll see how a strong integration of markup, CSS, and DOM can help you and your team tackle management and scalability challenges down the road. Molly will show you techniques for managing cross-browser experiences, including access to all users and with multiple delivery platforms, such as online and mobile screens. If you want to build great applications that incorporate the sense and sensibility of web standards, you won't want to miss this seminar.