Muddling Through the Mobile Web
summary
Claim: a practical pipeline beats vague rhetoric — start with device profiling via Werfel (server query + cookie profile, then client feature detection) to tailor images, CSS and JS. Experiments with server-side media queries and mustache templates prove too slow; XSLT is undesirable. Image swapping works but breaks captions and tables. Prototypes use CouchDB + Node.js and tools like Sass, TinySource and ImageMagick; PDFs show content-as-database but aren’t adaptive. Mobile traffic outgrows desktop; responsive design requires content-aware, context-driven delivery.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 4:47What Do You Do with Style Sheets
- 6:04Video Formats
- 6:46Reference Movies
- 8:17Dumb Filters
- 16:39Context
- 24:47How Would the Web Be Different
- 41:34Microformats
- 42:34Google Charts
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