I have been a bit slack over the last week on Standardzilla due to work and also preparing a presentation for the Web Standards Group last week, but that’s over so just a quick one to summarise the week and move on.

The Web Standards event was pretty cool. Not as busy as it has been in the past due to it being on the Thursday evening before the Australia Day long weekend, but still a good turnout overall. I believe the numbers were about 50 in the end which, including a special guest from overseas that dropped in for a quick beer. Turns out he is doing a Melbourne WSG gig, so if I was a Melbourne geek, I would get on it.

This meeting was an interesting format, 4 speakers - 20 minutes each on any topic. It kept the pace up a bit and made for an interesting night. The night kicked off with Cheryl Lead speaking about Life After Code, basically a run-down on all the things you can do with your career and how it is made better with a development background in your arsenal. Very interesting talk and a couple of randy slide in there as well…

Lachlan Hunt got up next to discuss HTML 5 and read through his notes efficiently, giving us a rundown of the history of HTML and XHTML and what we have to look forward to in the future with HTML 5. Although with his estimate of full browser support in 15 years, I think we will have to make do with what we have at the moment. Lachlan definitely got the crowd thinking and could have easily fielded an hour of questions but we had to keep to schedule.

After the break was Dmitry Baranovskiy schooling us on Web Typography. A bit of history of basic typography and it’s uses (or misuses) on the web.

To wrap it up I discussed Corporate Semantics, basically the ‘phase 2′ of web standards in a large corporation. What happens when management are cool with standards, what are your obstacles after that? I will convert my presentation into an article over the next couple of days as my slides were all pictures. I haven’t seen a presentation put online yet that actually made sense (how do you sync audio and a pdf slide show?) so won’t bother putting up any slides. Stay tuned…

Lastly, before we got back into the beers after the last presentation Anson Parker announced the second installment of Web Jam. Last Web Jam was a great night, so get your 3-minute presentations together and get on it. Number Four!!!!