ffconf 2016
2016-11-10..2016-11-11
Brighton, United Kingdom
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as the organisers put it
ffconf 2016 is a one day JavaScript Conference at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton, UK run on 10th and 11th November 2016
who it's for
front-end developers, web developers, accessibility engineers, site reliability engineers, JavaScript developers, devtools engineers, creative coders
topics
CSS Grid layout with minmax(); grid-auto-flow: dense patterns; display:contents for layout; @supports and custom properties; service workers offline caching; web app manifest installability; Web Payments API integration; progressive enhancement for PWAs; ARIA patterns and pragmatic accessibility; continuous deployment with canary rollouts; Chrome DevTools Node debugging and workspaces; procedural Web Audio with Canvas
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Next Level CSS | Rachel Andrew | 39m |
Tour of concrete CSS features with demos and browser notes: grid layout using minmax() and FR units to create responsive multi-column tracks, grid auto rows +… | ||
| Progressive Web | Ada Rose Edwards | 41m |
Argument: keep the P in PWA by using progressive enhancement not replacing it. Practical claims: offline caching and background tasks via service workers… | ||
| Technologic (Human After All): Accessibility remix | Léonie Watson | 41m |
Examples show that plain HTML often gives accessibility for free and that pragmatic fixes use ARIA and scripting to add role, name and state — a disclosure… | ||
| All Things Continuous | Andrew Martin | 41m |
Argues that small teams and one-person shops can run continuous deployment end to end using free or self‑hosted tools, with concrete steps: run tests on every… | ||
| Power of Emoji | Mariko Kosaka | 43m |
Traces emoji from i-mode 1999 to Apple adding support in iOS 2.2 Japan 2008, shows the engineer who specifies 12×12 pixel glyphs to ship icons, and documents… | ||
| Optimise your Web Development Workflow | Umar Hansa | 35m |
Live demos show Chrome DevTools actually doing things: native Node.js debugging attached to a running process with breakpoints and live edit, an in-DevTools… | ||
| A brief history and mishistory of modularity | Ashley Williams | 39m |
Argument: modularity means choices about what to hide from other parts of the system, not vague “separation of concerns.” Evidence: the npm registry scale… | ||
| Art.js | Mathieu Henri | 45m |
Builds a working live‑coded demo: a single HTML file using 2D canvas and Web Audio (a ScriptProcessor with a 2048 buffer) that runs a Conway‑like Game of Life… | ||
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