Edge Conference 2013
2013-02-09
London, United Kingdom
[Edge Conference 2013, Edge Conference 2013 New York, Edge Conference 2015]
who it's for
front-end developers, mobile web developers, web performance engineers, web app developers, qa automation engineers, build and release engineers, browser engineers
topics
AppCache limitations and fixes; programmable navigation controller; IndexedDB and local storage sync; server-side image transcoding and WebP; Client Hints device headers; HTTP/2 server push; 60 frames per second rendering strategies; image decoding in workers; CSS Regions and Grid migration; FastClick polyfill and Pointer Events; PhoneGap/Cordova packaged apps and quotas; WebDriver automation and telemetry
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Panel 1: Offline | Jake Archibald, Mark Christian, Alex Russell, Jonas Sicking, Andrew Betts | 01h 02m |
Conference panel argues that current offline APIs are broken in practice: AppCache serves cached assets even when online, updates only when the manifest… | ||
| Panel 2: Network | Ilya Grigorik, John Cleveley, Andy Davies, Jackson Gabbard, Steve Thair | 52m |
Network latency and round trips are the biggest page‑load killers on 3G, so concrete fixes matter: images are 60% of bytes and many sites misencode PNG/JPEGs… | ||
| Panel 3: Performance | Shane O'Sullivan, Rowan Beenje, Pavel Feldman, Chris Lord, Matt Delaney | 58m |
Goal is 60 frames per second but steady 30 frames per second often beats intermittent 60; Facebook tests show slowing frame rate cuts engagement and actions… | ||
| Panel 4: Responsive Layout | George Crawford, Razvan Caliman, Andy Hume, Amber Weinberg | 49m |
Demonstrations focus on real solutions not platitudes: a JavaScript polyfill called FT Columnflow clones and reflows paragraphs to simulate magazine columns… | ||
| Panel 5: Input | Matt Caruana Galizia, Maired Buchan, Francois Doust, Boris Smus, Pete LePage | 55m |
Browsers already standardize an HTML5 input event to capture text agnostically, and libraries like the FastClick polyfill exist because mobile taps still… | ||
| Panel 6: Privileged access | Brian LeRoux, Diana Cheng, Paul Kinlan, Petro Soininen, Christian Heilmann | 54m |
PhoneGap shows packaged web apps can ship to stores, run from file://, and call device APIs (camera, GPS, contacts) but battery polling in one PhoneGap… | ||
| Panel 7: Testing and tooling | Paul Irish, David Blooman, Remy Sharp, Simon Mavi Stewart, Ivan Žužak | 57m |
Panel covers concrete tools and workflows: automated CSS checks with Fighting Layout Bugs, CI running Dojo 2 tests via Travis + Sauce Labs, Telemetry for… | ||
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