Mobilism 2012
2012-05-10..2012-05-11
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mobilism ·
[Mobilism 2011, Mobilism 2012, Mobilism 2013, Mobilism 2015]
who it's for
mobile web developers, frontend developers, ux designers, product managers, qa engineers, platform engineers, app developers
topics
removing 300ms click delay; Application Cache pitfalls; navigator.getUserMedia and camera input; HLS and adaptive streaming support; Apache Cordova / BlackBerry WebWorks packaging; Appcelerator Titanium unified JavaScript API; server-side proxy rendering (Opera Mini); responsive design workflow and breakpoint graphs; remote debugging and Web Inspector tooling; device and network APIs (orientation, SMS, payments)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Asymmetric competition | Horace Dediu | 49m |
Claims that smartphones reallocate value not just share: Apple grabs 73% of industry profits while volumes show Samsung overtaking Nokia and Apple shipping… | ||
| The mobile platform world | Peter-Paul Koch | 49m |
Counts matter: the mobile world really has 25 browsers, 20 operators, 15 device vendors, 10 operating systems and that density drives specific tensions… | ||
| Facing the Future | James Pearce | 49m |
Argues the web can be competitive again by fixing concrete gaps not repeating slogans, cites half a billion mobile users on Facebook, a test suite called… | ||
| Tricks and hacks for a more native feel in a mobile browser | Laurent Hasson | 28m |
Concrete hacks and code-level claims: how to virtualize the browser event loop, remove the 300ms click delay by mapping touch to click with ten lines of JS… | ||
| Bringing YouTube Videos to a Mobile World | Greg Schechter, Eugene Goldin | 32m |
YouTube ported its HTML5 player to many phones, shipping concrete fixes: support for WebM and H.264 plus HLS for live adaptive streams, iframe embeds with a… | ||
| Mobifying eCommerce: taking an internet business mobile | Igor Faletski | 31m |
A practical pitch for client-side adaptation: an MIT-licensed JavaScript toolkit plus an optional cloud service that boots via a small tag, compiles… | ||
| Ending the Web Versus Native Debate | Kevin Whinnery | 31m |
Claims Titanium Mobile ends the web vs native fight by exposing a unified JavaScript API that binds JS to real native UI and platform services. The platform… | ||
| The Immobile Web | Jason Grigsby | 48m |
Device diversity gets an order of magnitude worse as SmartTVs ship from Sony LG Vizio and Samsung and rumors of an Apple TV circulate TV browsers already test… | ||
| Mobile Apps with JavaScript - There's More Than Web | Heiko Behrens | 48m |
Shows concrete tradeoffs and demos: pure HTML5/WebGL can render rich content but lags on iPad and lacks camera, background push, and address-book access… | ||
| Mobile browser panel | Arnaud Weber, Andrea Trasatti, Andreas Bovens, Eli Fidler | 01h 18m |
A panel of browser vendors from Google Nokia Opera and RIM debates concrete tradeoffs: proxy rendering (Opera Mini/Nokia server-side farms) that cuts bandwidth… | ||
| Beyond mobile, beyond web | Scott Jenson | 47m |
Argues native apps don’t scale and proposes a phone-level discovery service that surfaces nearby micro‑services for just-in-time interaction. Demonstrates with… | ||
| Responsive Design Workflow | Stephen Hay | 48m |
Argues that old Photoshop-heavy handoffs slow projects and proposes a content-out workflow that starts with a content inventory, quick content-reference… | ||
| Mobile debugging | Remy Sharp | 48m |
Lists specific tools and techniques and shows what actually works: remote REPL and logging with JSConsole; live DOM inspection and remote eval with weinre… | ||
| PixelPhones | Seb Lee-Delisle | 49m |
Browser and native builds use OpenFrameworks C++ app and web sockets handshake to locate and time‑sync phones by averaging round trip times then scheduling… | ||
| Device/network API panel | Dominique Hazael-Massieux, Daniel Appelquist, Brian L | 49m |
PhoneGap ships a working camera API but the panel shows it evolving into a richer media capture surface; browsers already implement getUserMedia in Chrome… | ||
| Application Cache: Douchebag | Jake Archibald | 31m |
Claim: Application Cache provides offline power but reliably breaks assumptions. Specifics: the manifest is all-or-nothing manifest so caches only install when… | ||
| For a Future-Friendly Web | Brad Frost | 25m |
Argues the web wins through ubiquity and that creators must make content portable and prioritized: treat content like water, focus on the single reason people… | ||
| Cutting through the crap: Essence of content on the future web | Lyza Danger Gardner | 45m |
Argues that liberating “M&M” content requires concrete tactics not slogans: authors convert core copy into Markdown + Pandoc, attach special sauce metadata… | ||
| Resonance: A Mobile Design Ethos | Brian Fling | 43m |
Argues that hitting five‑star mobile apps requires concrete tradeoffs: measure ratings (top 10 iPad apps ≈4.4 stars, top 50 ≈4.29), pick a deployment type from… | ||
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