Do you want to convert your single-page web apps to a desktop environment? Learn how to apply your development skillset – including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS as well as media queries, templating and data binding – to desktop application development.

HTML5 is ushering in a new era of graphically rich, visually compelling and highly interactive Web sites and apps. This session outlines some of what you can do with new HTML5 and CSS3 features introduced in Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10, including Web Open Font Format (WOFF) fonts, 2D & 3D transforms, transitions, animations, gradients, box and text shadow, border-radius, multi-column layout, inline SVG, and canvas.

This video demonstrates the power of CSS preprocessors like Sass, Less, or Stylus.  It explains why these are a game changer for front-end development.

Introduction to the basics of Cascading Style Sheets covering the structure of a CSS property, classes, element selectors, pseudo-classes, pseudo-elements, compound and simple selectors, the use of selectors, internal and external style-sheets, basic properties, CSS specificity, CSS Menus, CSS Navigation, and basic debugging of CSS with a Firefox web development tool (Firebug) and browser compatibility.

Does CSS drive you nuts? Do you struggle through getting your site looking okay on one browser, only to find out that it looks like a trainwreck on others? Do suffer recurring nightmares about Internet Explorer? Do you fight with your designers because they keep sending you things that look pretty, but just don’t seem to work in real life? Is your HTML and CSS a pile of ugly, hacky, brittle code that mars your otherwise beautiful codebase?

Learn how to use HTML5 and CSS3 on ASP.NET with Visual Studio. It explores what HTML5 and CSS3 have to offer modern application developers and how you can use them with ASP.NET for rich Web applications.

This video introduces the Modernizr, an open-source JavaScript library that should help you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites. Modernizr detects the availability of native implementations for new features that stem from the HTML5 and CSS3 specifications.

This video explains practical ways to create more engaging applications incorporating animation and sound. The techniques demonstrated show how a little bit of JavaScript and some clever CSS3 can add some sizzle and make your applications more appealing to the end user.

Creating complex sites that work well across browsers is a constant challenge for developers. See how Internet Explorer 9 makes it easier to create Web sites using interoperable HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. We’ll show best practices you can use today to target a broad range of browsers.

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This session show how can you take advantage of new HTML5 features in your GWT applications in the form of demos. We’ll cover examples of how to use Canvas for advanced graphics, CSS3 features, Web Workers, and more within your Google Web Toolkit applications.