LAYER
summary
A brisk history that makes concrete claims: layer tag as absolutely positioned element explains why Netscape 4 bugs taught habits of browser-specific hacks; deliberate incompatibilities in the browser wars force tooling like QuirksMode and Dynamic Drive and later polyfills; responsive design works because meta viewport plus media queries do the job; browser is an intermediate layer so web apps trade a bit of speed for ubiquity; testing only Chrome is risky because many Chromium forks (Samsung, HTC) create subtly different platforms.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:20Layers
- 3:22Browser Wars
- 7:54Tools
- 10:22Web Standards
- 15:30App Revolution
- 19:35Mobile Revolution
- 24:22Tools Revolution
- 32:05Platforms
- 33:39Web is not one platform
- 35:31Backend developers dont understand the web
- 38:20Repeat yourself
- 41:02Experience focus
- 43:45Conclusion
