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July Melbourne WSG meeting

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Date: Monday 20 July, 2009

Event Details

On Monday, July 20th, John Allsopp will be in town to talk about CSS3 (and all the cool things that you can do with it today). As always, there will be great door prizes up for grabs including some excellent SitePoint books and a ticket to Web Directions South!

This event will occur at Loop Bar in the city — note this is a Monday night.

Date: Monday, July 20th, 2009
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start
City: Melbourne
Venue: Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne VIC 3000 [map]
Cost: FREE

CSS3 Reloaded

CSS 3 seems to have been coming for years—but is there anything to show for it yet? Or is it all "pie in the sky"?

Hold onto your seats (or beers at least!). In this presentation, John Allsopp, who's been knee-deep in CSS for more than 12 years, shows us what's been going on behind the scenes with CSS 3—not in the spec, but in the real world. In this talk, John will show you all kinds of CSS effects you can use to progressively enhance your sites for a new generation of browsers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, while still delivering a great experience to users of other browsers.

About John Allsopp

John Allsopp Author of the longest standing CSS development tool on any platform, Style Master, John is also the founder of the Web Directions Conference series, held in Australia, the US, Japan and now the UK. He's written numerous articles in print and online, many free developer tools, was one of the earliest members of the Web Standards Project, wrote the first ever print book on Microformats, and is hard at work on an in-depth book for web developers.

John also is the chair of the W3C's education focussed incubator group.

When not doing one or more of the above, usually simultaneously, John tries to catch up on the parenting of his two young girls.

Our sponsors

Web Standards Group meetings are free to attend because of the generosity of our event sponsors.

Gold sponsor: SitePoint

With a range of books, kits, training videos, tutorials, blogs and thousands of helpful members ready to answer your question, SitePoint is the world's largest online community dedicated to helping you build a better web. Based in Melbourne, SitePoint is currently looking for PHP developers to join the team. Read more about the roles or talk to one of the SitePoint guys on the night for more information.

Silver sponsor: Web Directions

Founded in Australia in 2004 by long time web industry figures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp, Web Directions conferences bring together the web industry’s leading experts from around the world to educate, entertain and inspire attendees. Web Directions South 2009 will run in Sydney in October this year—register now to take advantage of the early bird discount.

Other Important Stuff

For catering purposes, please RSVP for this event below (you must become a WSG member to do so).

Also remember to bring a business card if you want to go into the draw to win one of the very cool door prizes!

Comments

Posted: 28-Jul-09 by ben

Hi, i really enjoyed the presentation by John. I was wondering if I could see the presentation slides somewhere online?

Thanks