
HTML 5 Design and Development Tooling
Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.

Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.
Adobe is applying is experience in print media to CSS with the introduction of CSS3 Regions and Exclusions. These features will allow a single block of content to span multiple columns and weave its way around pictures and charts much like you would see in a magazine or newspaper.
Sencha released Animator, a tool for creating CSS-based animations, that lets designers create interactive HTML5/CSS3-based animations that run smoothly on desktop and mobile devices, without requiring a plug-in. Sencha Animator enables designers to leverage Web standards and create, cross-platform animations for WebKit browsers, Internet Explorer 10, and popular touchscreen mobile devices
Following Microsoft’s announcement that Windows 8’ UI will be based on HTML5 and JavaScript, it is no surprise that Visual Studio 2010 has got an update polishing its HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 support: up-to-date W3C-based intellisense and validation for HTML5 and CSS3, plus Geolocation and DOM storage intellisense.
Microsoft has released an update to Expression Web 4 to support HTML 5 and CSS 3 development. This update, part of Service Pack 1, is only a partial solution; it offers IntelliSense and error-checking support but with only partial preview support. This update also includes expanded support for PHP IntelliSense.
Mark Volkmann introduces CSS3 and Sass, a tool extending CSS with variables, selector nesting, mixins and selector inheritance, the resulting code being converted to regular CSS before deploying.
Wesley Reisz explains HTML5, demoing some of its most important features and highlighting some of the obstacles he met while working with it.

David talks about the unique challenges facing developers building mobile HTML5 apps, especially on WebKit. He also outlines the recent developments on this field and how they empower a whole new genre of applications.