HTML 5 is the proposed new standard for writing web pages and, most importantly, web applications. It's deliberately being designed to be an open standard that competes with Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to be the language of web applications.
Bruce believes that if you don't vote, you can't complain about the government.
The HTML 5 spec isn't finished yet, so he decided to try to use the new language in order to see how it works in the real world, and give feedback to the working group from a pragmatic perspective rather than academic.
This talk summarizes Bruce's hair-raising adventures in The HTML 5 Experiments!!
Bruce was technical lead for the Solicitors Regulation Authority in the UK. He's a member of the Web Standards Project and co-wrote and co-edited “Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance”.
He now evangelizes Open Web Standards for Opera Software. Previously, he was a tarot card reader in Istanbul, a volunteer pharmacist in Calcutta, tutor to a Thai princess and a movie actor in Bombay.