This content originally appeared on Lea Verou’s blog and was authored by Lea Verou
Last week, I was in London to give 2 talks. The first one was last Thursday, in one of the conferences I wanted to go ever since I learned my first CSS properties: Web directions @media. The second one was 2 days later in a smaller event called Standards.next.
Web Directions @media
I managed to get my @media talk early on schedule, so I could relax afterwards and enjoy the rest of the conference. Before I saw the feedback on twitter I thought they hated it, since the audience was silent and didn’t laugh at any of my jokes and asked no questions afterwards. However, I was wrong: The tweets about it were enthusiastic! Here’s a small sample:
https://twitter.com/KrokoHunter/status/73686696381779968
https://twitter.com/adrmakow/status/73688461537849344
https://twitter.com/KrokoHunter/status/73691398058147840
https://twitter.com/xtinafowler/status/73691708138848256
https://twitter.com/stefsull/status/73692171684941825
https://twitter.com/ubelly/status/73692212772343808
https://twitter.com/pauliom/status/73694312315092992
https://twitter.com/mfujica/status/73694696517545984
https://twitter.com/johnallsopp/status/73694876524490752
https://twitter.com/johnallsopp/status/73695196986085376
https://twitter.com/prawnstar/status/73697565970935808
https://twitter.com/KrokoHunter/status/73700078921056256
https://twitter.com/matmannion/status/73700794624516096
https://twitter.com/farinab/status/73700896722268160
https://twitter.com/GlennCahill87/status/73701420704075776
https://twitter.com/NIMRweb/status/73701806122868736
https://twitter.com/xtinafowler/status/73702048620744704
https://twitter.com/KrokoHunter/status/73728517489172480
https://twitter.com/KrokoHunter/status/74227907878334464
https://twitter.com/blagdaross/status/74429856514965504
https://twitter.com/sparrk/status/74556639608442880
https://twitter.com/anttio/status/74575465905520641
https://twitter.com/sirbenjaminnunn/status/74900149448609792
You can play with the HTML version of my slides or view them on slideshare:
View more presentations from Lea Verou
I really enjoyed some of the other talks in @media, especially:
- Stephanie Sullivan’s “Modern CSS”
- Bruce Lawson’s “Multimedia in HTML5”
- Nicole Sullivan’s “Performance of CSS3 and HTML5”
Standards.next
The morning before my Standards.next talk, I woke up with a sore throat, a running nose and a blocked ear. I even thought about cancelling my talk, but I’m one of those people that have to be dying to change their schedule. So I went, and I’m glad I did, as I got to attend Peter Gasston’s incredible talk on CSS3 layout. I really learned so much stuff from that!
As for my talk (“CSS Secrets: 10 things you might not know about CSS3”), it went fine after all. I had some trouble hearing the questions, due to the blocked ear, but nothing too bad. I had trouble with my last demo, as I got confused and used background-origin: padding-box; instead of content-box, but nobody there hated me because of it, like I was afraid would happen if I ever screwed up one of my demos :)
That event was much smaller (it took place in a small room in a pub), so the tweets were much fewer, but still very positive:
https://twitter.com/patrick\_h\_lauke/status/74496751716929536
https://twitter.com/stopsatgreen/status/74497512261693440
https://twitter.com/mfujica/status/74499137558687744
https://twitter.com/danielknell/status/74499496746299392
https://twitter.com/brucel/status/74500503098245121
https://twitter.com/patrick\_h\_lauke/status/74501557349138432
https://twitter.com/danielknell/status/74502234251071488
https://twitter.com/mfujica/status/74504295927648257
https://twitter.com/designjuju/status/74504416534855680
https://twitter.com/mfujica/status/74504823881469952
https://twitter.com/twitrnick/status/74506406191046656
https://twitter.com/patrick\_h\_lauke/status/74506910807764992
https://twitter.com/stopsatgreen/status/74508394974810113
https://twitter.com/stefsull/status/74508645513175040
https://twitter.com/albybarber/status/74532879832584194
https://twitter.com/jackosborne/status/74608125289828352
I found out afterwards that one particular lady in the audience complained about my pronunciation of the words “fuchsia” and “ems”. That’s what I would’ve said to her if I heard: “Here’s some breaking news to you: Not everyone is a native english speaker. Shocking, isn’t it? I would really be interested to hear your pronunciation if you ever did a presentation in Greek. KKTHXBAI”
Overall, I had a great time in London. I hadn’t been there for more than 10 years, so I had forgotten how beautiful city it is. I loved attending and speaking at both of those events, and I would like to thank Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp for inviting me to @media and Bruce Lawson for inviting me at Standards.next.
This content originally appeared on Lea Verou’s blog and was authored by Lea Verou
Lea Verou | Sciencx (2011-06-01T00:00:00+00:00) My experience from Web Directions @media & Standards.next. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2011/06/01/my-experience-from-web-directions-media-standards-next/
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