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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
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Summary
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
Bio
Addy Osmani is a JavaScript developer for AOL who prolifically speaks and writes about the language on a weekly basis. His material covers everything from building large-scale applications to using polyfills to bring the web's latest hotness to older browsers. He's a member of the jQuery Core bug triage and docs teams and has also contributed to the open-source library, Modernizr.
About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.
Jul 24, 2012