Biography: Bruce Lawson

 Bruce Lawson evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's been active in Web Standards since 2002, working with the Web Standards Project, the W3C Mobile Best Practices Working Group and developer education.

He co–authored Introducing HTML5, the first full–length book on the subject. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk. You can follow him at @brucel.

Q & A with Bruce Lawson:

Q. Tell us a little about what you will be talking about at HTML5 Live.

A. I'll be dismissing some of the myths about HTML5 and  cutting through some of the hype.


Q. What will people who attend your talk learn?
A. What HTML5 is, where it came from and why it's lovely.


Q. What will they take away that they can apply right away?

A. You'll have an overview of how it fits together and how it can make development quicker and sites better.


Q. In your opinion, why should people attend HTML5 Live?

A. You'll see some of the people who are actually making it happen and get a chance to ask them to please slow it all down.


Q. Why is HTML5 exciting for web developers? Architects?

A. It evolves the Web we know and love to a new level, and vanquishes the evil forces of proprietary code.