Get the low-down on this excellent HTML5 feature and learn how you can add it to your own web projects (and why you’d want to!). We’ll also look at some of the missteps made along the way (like the 2011/12 Twitter web interface).
Douglas Crockford has introduced us all to the good parts of JavaScript. But what then are “the bad parts”? In this session, Anette Bergo takes a look at some of JavaScript’s odd parts, quirks, and pitfalls.
This 15 minute party may or may not include: when and how to load and run JavaScript on page load; JavaScript coding conventions you should adopt; a look at writing callback oriented JavaScript and some JavaScript performance tips for fun and profit.
Before we fork out for expensive performance monitoring tools, what if we took the time to listen to what our browser was trying to tell us? We can discover a whole range of features you may have ignored. Discover how to debug network latency issues, memory leaks and other performance fun in our browsers. With web applications becoming more like desktop apps, remaining open for days at a time. Now is the time to listen to your browsers pain and walk away with a new toolkit of performance best practices.
Let’s have a look at how new features such as autofocus, required fields, native date pickers, placeholder text and popping up tailored keyboards for numbers and email addresses on mobile devices can make life more enjoyable!
In this session, you’ll learn about good tools that can make CSS development faster and maintenance easier.
In this presentation, we overview the basic set of technologies that can be used to annotate web pages so that they can be processed by data-aware search engines.
Learn how to build high performance Internet and web applications with Node.js.
In this session, Michael Honey and Tim Riley answer the question “web or native?” from business, product design and development perspectives.
This session will describe in length a boilerplate you can use for developing your own apps aimed at A grade mobile devices and tablets.
If this year is all about the mobile space maturing, then your web skills are where it’s at and a key player is PhoneGap, which supercharges your code and gets you into the app store(s).
In this session, we’ll take a look at all of the possibilities and explore what works and where — from the simplest effects, to creative usability enhancements including the combination of CSS with mobile Javascript frameworks.
In this session we will explore ways you can implement and combine HTML APIs such as websockets, web workers, local storage, and geolocation to make awesome web apps.
How do we test the vast array of devices out there? And what tools can help us make this a painless experience?
Would you like to learn how to organize your JavaScript applications so they can scale? Be able to write apps that support switching out Dojo or jQuery without rewriting a line of code?
[Web Directions] is a delicious mix of things educational, social and mind-blowing. It’s time out from the hurly-burly to step back, get some perspective, and develop new ways forward, fortified with a whole lot of new stuff in your head.
Chris Stephens Technology Director, Mozo
