Mobilism 2013
2013-05-16..2013-05-17
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mobilism ·
[Mobilism 2011, Mobilism 2012, Mobilism 2013, Mobilism 2015]
who it's for
mobile web developers, front-end developers, ux designers, accessibility specialists, web performance engineers, qa and test engineers, product managers
topics
responsive images with srcset and picture; touch input and pointer events; responsive design workflows with Sass and static generators; performance budgets for GPRS and caching; image optimization including WebP; high-resolution canvas and retina strategies; console browser support and Kinect JS gestures; storage limit workarounds using iframes and postMessage; html5 game packaging with custom native wrappers; WebRTC state and capabilities; feature detection and "cuts the mustard" tests; accessibility patterns for responsive interfaces
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile Web Design Anti-Patterns | Dave Shea | 50m |
Argues that adding a proper mobile site typically mobile sales double within weeks, warns against fullscreen app popups and MDOT redirects, shows that… | ||
| The New Photoshop, Part 2: The Revenge of The Web | Stephen Hay | 46m |
Argues that replacing dozens or hundreds of PSDs with browser mockups actually saves time and reduces revisions — cites a redesign that sat on 200 PSD files… | ||
| Console Browsers: The Ultimate Torture Test | Anna Debenham | 52m |
A survey-backed case: 86% of primary pupils own a TV console and 69% a handheld, only 10% have smartphones; 13% of UK adults use consoles to access the… | ||
| Scale and adapt: A story of how we built Responsive BBC News | John Cleveley | 51m |
Builds a responsive BBC News front end that actually ships: mobile‑first core at ~30KB, progressive enhancement via a conservative feature gate (uses… | ||
| So you know jQuery. Now what? | Remy Sharp | 46m |
jQuery remains a fast route to interactivity but most of its common jobs are now native: use querySelectorAll for DOM selection, classList and dataset for… | ||
| Context, Bloody Context | Cennydd Bowles | 53m |
Argues that context matters but only when nailed down: offers seven flavors (DETAILS) to inspect — device, environment, time, activity, individual, location… | ||
| Breaking Limits on Mobile HTML5 | Maximiliano Firtman | 53m |
Fifteen concrete hacks claim real, testable results: a background tab resurrection using meta refresh plus JS to shift reloads, platform‑specific full‑screen… | ||
| Beyond Mobile: Where No Geek Has Gone Before | Josh Clark | 58m |
Promises of future interfaces become decisions when concrete examples appear: intoNow (listens to 4 seconds of TV to identify season and episode), gesture… | ||
| Doing Responsive Right: Accessibility Lessons from the Field | Derek Featherstone | 53m |
Shows concrete accessibility failures and fixes: multi-column forms break context for magnified users so convert to a vertical stack; headings must surface the… | ||
| Developing for touch | Peter-Paul Koch | 44m |
Slides and live examples demonstrate actionable details: the universal 300ms delay and when to stick with click; Apple-style touch events expose changedTouches… | ||
| Responsible Responsive Images | Mat Marquis | 45m |
Claims that responsive images reduce wasted bandwidth with real wins: images make up ~64% of page weight, average pages exceed 1MB, one Oakley landing page… | ||
| A Successful Cross Platform HTML5 Game, From Shaping To Shipping | Martin Kool | 54m |
A small HTML5 puzzle called quento.com goes from sketch to store in two months, ships on iOS Android Windows8 and the web, and attracts ~2,000 daily players… | ||
| The State of WebRTC | Rob Hawkes | 53m |
Claim: browsers now do UDP peer-to-peer media and arbitrary data. Implementation: getUserMedia & RTCPeerConnection plus a short-lived signaling server, ICE… | ||
| Designing with and for existing content | Sara Wachter-Boettcher | 47m |
If a site has legacy content start with a content audit in spreadsheets discover where pages come from and what actually matters you can often cut huge swaths… | ||
| Rendering without lumpy bits | Jake Archibald | 49m |
Slides and demos show concrete fixes: avoid layout thrashing by batching reads before writes, measure with Chrome Timeline and paint rectangles, and aim for… | ||
| Hot Topics Panel | Jeremy Keith | 54m |
Panel debates concrete outcomes: vendors abused prefixes and left site CSS broken, so browsers put experimental features behind a flag in Canary; community… | ||
| nothing matches | ||