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The New York Web Standards Meetup will meet 17 March 2010 at reBar at 7:00 pm for "CSS3 and the Death of the Background Image, or Yet Another Talk on Progressive Enhancement (aka Death to IE6/7/Sometimes 8)."

The immense CSS3 proposal (which has been on the W3C's table for years) is now seeing a significant number of draft modules being implemented in browsers and most of these modules are explicitly geared toward reducing our time in Photoshop. In this comprehensive how-to, Marco Carag (TheKnot.com) will run through all the new properties you've been reading about and anticipating, including @font-face, rgba, gradients, drop-shadows, transforms and animation. Using both focused proof-of-concept pages and actual production examples from The Knot and other websites across the web, attendees will see the impact of CSS3 on the average front-end workflow and understand how it improves or affects your users' experience across all browsers.

Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

The New York Web Standards Meetup will meet tomorrow (24 September 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

Mike Taylor (Tunecore.com) and Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism) will continue last month's presentation on HTML5 by covering Web Forms 2.0 and the canvas, audio and video elements.

The canvas element can be used to draw graphics using JavaScript, while the audio and video elements permit native embedding of those media elements in the browser. Web Forms 2.0 provides, among other things, strongly-typed input fields, new attributes for defining constraints and new DOM interfaces

Please note—This meetup is currently full and the waiting list is quite long. If you know you won't be able to make it, please update your RSVP.

Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

Please note—The NY Web Standards Meetup: Advanced Google Maps API has been rescheduled from 19 February 2009 to 26 February 2009.

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet next Thursday (26 February 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

After a brief intro to/review of the Google Maps API, Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism) will cover some advanced Google Maps API topics, including server- and client-side clustering, creating custom base maps and some GIS-like functions.

Attendees should have some experience with JavaScript and familiarity with the Google Maps API.

26 February 2009 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]

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Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet this Thursday (22 January 2009) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.

Geir Magnusson (10gen) will talk about 10gen's MongoDB, an object-oriented DBMS. It is neither a relational database nor even "table oriented" like Amazon SimpleDB or Google's BigTable.

22 January 2009 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]

RSVP now!

Please contact theMechanism if you'd like to present at a future New York Web Standards meetup.

The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will be meeting at theMechanism on 22 March 2007 at 6:30 pm to discuss AJAX and form handling. I plan on giving a form submission demo utilizing mini AJAX and JSON.

22 March 2007 . 6:30 pm
theMechanism|eEmerge
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]