ColdFront 2017
| title | author | length |
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| The Magic of Color | Eva Ferreira | 36m |
Shows concrete techniques: uses CSS Color Level 4 syntax (alpha with a slash works today only in Firefox), demos HWB and color-mod ideas and a PostCSS/cssnext… | ||
| The Samsung Internet Story: Why Samsung Made a Web Browser | Peter O'Shaughnessy | 29m |
A practical history of Samsung Internet that lists what changed and what worked: it claims ~400 million users, shows StatCounter at ~10% mobile share in… | ||
| Real world connectivity: Beyond the bubble | Ben Schwarz | 34m |
Global connectivity stats are concrete: 43% of people have internet, India added ~100 million new users in 2016, the global average download speed is ~7.2 MB/s… | ||
| Why we need a better browser | Ken Wheeler | 34m |
Argues the mobile web is losing to native and shows a concrete proof of concept: a React Native app browser that swaps a webview for a React Native bundle via… | ||
| Magic Tricks with CSS Houdini | Samuel Richard | 39m |
CSS Houdini lets JavaScript plug into the browser render engine via tiny background threads called worklets, with concrete pieces: paint worklet (draw scalable… | ||
| The future of Virtual and Augmented Reality for the web | Jordan Santell | 30m |
Claims that WebXR already exposes hardware to pages with concrete APIs: navigator.getVRDisplays, pose and position data, requestAnimationFrame at 90fps… | ||
| LiveJS: Making Music with JavaScript | Ruth John, Martin Schuhfuss, Matt Mckegg | 40m |
Browser-based app generates music, visuals and lighting using WebAudio and WebMIDI, running in Electron or any modern browser; MIDI controllers send… | ||
| Bridging the web and the physical world | Kenneth Rohde Christiansen | 28m |
Claims that the web can talk to hardware now via Web Bluetooth (BLE/GATT, Bluetooth 4.x, promises and typed arrays) and Web USB (bulk/interrupt/isochronous… | ||
| From Doodles to Dashboards, Data Flows, and Docs | Una Kravets | 49m |
Argument: hand-drawn diagrams and doodles measurably improve learning, debugging, docs, and community adoption by turning semantic ideas into visual memory… | ||
| Scale Down, People Up: Making the Web More Approachable | Jessica Lord | 28m |
An argument for lowering barriers with concrete examples: a desktop app get it that teaches the full git+GitHub workflow, built with plain HTML/JSON/vanilla JS… | ||
| Why MailChimp loves the web | Eric Muntz | 35m |
MailChimp supports 16 million users sending over a billion emails per day and credits the web for fast feedback loops: a UI clock fix ships with d3 in 48… | ||
| Keynote: Betting on The Web | Henrik Joreteg | 41m |
Argues that web apps are smaller, faster, and easier to deliver: Starbucks native app is 146 MB while the PWA is about 2.4% of that and cold starts faster than… | ||
| Panel debate: Day 1 | 33m | |
Day one wraps as a rapid-fire debate about what actually works: someone prototypes with an Electron app and never stops, another wires a robot crossbow with… | ||
| Panel debate: Day 2 | 36m | |
Progressive web apps win concrete scrutiny: background geolocation is not a thing yet so a web app plus a thin native layer is recommended for tracking… | ||
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