2008
Google Chrome
2007
Mobile Safari
2006
HTML5
2004
Mozilla Firefox
2004
CSS3
2003
Apple Safari
1999
AJAX
1998
CSS 2.0
1997
Flash
1996
CSS 1.0
1996
HTML 4.0
1995
Internet Explorer
1995
JavaScript
1995
Opera
1994
Netscape
1994
HTML 3.0
1993
Mosaic
1993
HTML 2.0
1991
HTML 1.0
1990
HTTP

About

HTML5 and CSS3 have very quickly moved from being tentative new standards to the base standards for every major desktop and mobile browser. HTML5 is now just HTML, a modular, living standard that no longer needs a version number.

Now that we are no longer fighting over platforms, it’s time to put the specs aside and revisit the construction of user interface: how do we raise the bar for stellar user interface on the web?

Meta Refresh is a follow-up to DocType HTML5 from 2010-11 and is a conference on web UI engineering.

Meta Refresh
Take Charge

Redesign your least favourite Indian Government website.


Sponsors


Schedule

Event Preview

Vote or
Propose a Session

HasGeek events are community driven. You are invited to submit a session proposal, and you get to influence the proposals that make it to the schedule by voting them up or down in the funnel.

Submissions closed 15th April

Time Room P1 (Stories) Room P2 (Process) Room T1 (Browsers) Room T2 (Tools)
09:00 – 09:45 Registrations and sign-in
09:45 – 10:00 Introductions
10:00 – 10:45

RubyMonk - Design to 1 Million Page Views in Four Weeks

Rahul Gonsalves (@rahul)

UX Design Process/Workflow

Jonathan D’Mello (@jonathandmello)

(open)

JavaScript + MVC + NodeJS + Mobile = Mojito

Gaurav Vaish (@mastergaurav)

10:45 – 11:15 Break
11:15 – 12:00

Building Cleartrip Mobile

Sunit Singh (@surdattack)

Scalable Frontend architecture

Praveen Kumar (@apnerve)

Shiny, Usefull, Cool: CSS3, HTML5 and a whole lot more

Shwetank Dixit (@shwetank)

Page Load Optimization

Aditya Manohar (@adityamanohar)

12:00 – 12:45

Frontend challenges @ Flipkart

Aakash Bapna (@aaakaash)

(open)

Interaction design for the web - the do's and don'ts

Harish Sivaramakrishnan

Stop the spaghetti code with Backbone.JS

Jon Maim (@jonmaim)

12:45 – 02:00 Lunch
02:00 – 02:45

I haz your mouse clicks and key strokes

Akash Mahajan (@makash)

Optimizing Modern Web Applications for Performance

Karthik Kastury (@karthikdot)

Canvas or SVG? Which way do I go?

Harish Sivaramakrishnan

Be a Ninza CSS Coder with CSS Preprocessors (Stylus, LESS, SASS)

Brajeshwar Oinam (@brajeshwar)

02:45 – 03:30

Ninja Prototyping with Templating Engines

Uday M. Shankar (@udayms)

Best practices for building cross browser compatible web apps/sites

Rajasekharan Vengalil (@avranju)

GPU programming with WebGL

Mrinal Wadhwa (@mrinal)

Responsive Web Design with CSS3 Media Queries

Ramesh Selvam (@selvamglobal)

03:30 – 04:00 Break
04:00 – 04:45

Great TYPOGRAPHY == Great DESIGN

Aashish Solanki (@netbramha)

Frontend build process

Sunil Pai (@threepointone)

Go Geo with HTML5

Jai Santhosh (@jaisanthosh)

Designing in the Browser

Souvik Das Gupta (@souvikdg)

04:45 – 05:30

Take Charge demos

None

Build a Responsive Design quickly with SASS + practical challenges & solutions

Arpan CJ (@arpancj)

Client side storage on the modern web

Rajasekharan Vengalil (@avranju)

Tutorial: Knockout.js + Twitter + Maps

Sameer Segal (@sameersegal)

05:30 – 06:00 Feedback
Time Room P1 (Stories)Room P2 (Process)
Time Room T1 (Browsers)Room T2 (Tools)

Venue

Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram

Christ University Campus Bangalore

Getting There

Enter Christ University’s main entrance gate on Marigowda Road and drive straight down to Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, within the campus. Christ University is at Dairy Circle, half a kilometre from the Forum mall. Meta Refresh is in DVK's Philosophy and Theology blocks, behind the main auditorium.

If you are approaching from Dairy Circle, drive up to Hosur Road for a U-turn. The campus has sufficient parking space.

View location in Google Maps

When

21st April 2012
9:00 am to 6:00 pm


HasGeek

HasGeek is a developer-led initiative, and has been un-organising the unconference scene since 2010. HasGeek is an attempt to solve the problem of insipid conferences organised around buzzwords by uninterested, soulless corporate entities who pitch them as company training events or as places for companies to pick up hot developers.

We are attempting to build a new space, a space that is genuinely respectful of the communities and topics that we choose to engage with. We want to be a space for developers who are as excited as us about technology and the possibilities that it creates, not to be a recruitment fair (though we hope you do find partnership possibilities at our events).

We are community-driven — check out our speaker-selection funnel, where you decide what talks to listen to by voting up or down. There are just a handful of us running the show and are not in it for the money (not there is much left after paying the vendors and logistics providers). We are doing this because this is what we love: bringing a whole bunch of us geeks together, sharing our interests and expertise and hanging out later over $beverageOfChoice.

Credits

Producer
Anupama Sharma
Editor
Kiran Jonnalagadda
Website
Prateek Rungta,
Miranj
Sidharth Kuruvila
Hosting
E2E Networks
Tech support
Kingsly John
Praneeth Bodduluri
Hasgeek
Kiran Jonnalagadda
Zainab Bawa
Anupama Sharma
Nigel Babu
Sajjad Anwar
Parag Gupta
Earth Photo
Blue Marble,
NASA
Supported By
The Centre for Internet and Society