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Building Bridges to a Post-SPA FutureReact Summit 20262026-06-12
SPAs were always based on contingent logic. For the benefits to materialise, users must spend a great deal of time in the same interface, updating state…
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Frontend’s Lost Decade and the Performance Inequality GapJSNation 20252025-06-12
The promise of the web is universal access to services across OSes and devices without gatekeepers, but like all systems, the web isn't what it promises – it's…
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Reckoning: Frontend's Lost Decadeperformance.now() 20242024-11-14
Argues that the web is web losing on mobile by specific mechanisms: app‑store distribution and in‑app browsers that steal links, AMP and search ranking…
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The Global Baseline, 2022performance.now() 20222022-10-27
Argues for a conservative Global Baseline anchored to a mid‑range device like the Samsung Galaxy A50 (≈4 GB RAM, 4G) and shows measurement using BigQuery, HTTP…
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The Mobile Web: MIAJSCamp Romania 20192019-09-23
Claim: responsive design failed because the mobile web is shrinking — time-on-mobile is ~13% (and Chrome telemetry suggests it’s falling, often below 10%)…
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The New Mobile RealityFrontend Conference Zurich 20182018-08-30
The current state of mobile networks and handsets isn't easy to understand. Things are changing rapidly -- and progress is uneven. Building for this…
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Web Components: Just in the Nick of TimePolymer Summit 20172017-08-22
Started-from-scratch rewrites cut Gmail’s DOM by 40% DOM reduction in a prototype and about 30% in production, which yields a real-world half-second latency…
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Adapting to the Mobile Web F̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ PresentPolymer Summit 20162016-10-17
Claim: many web apps ship an order of magnitude too much JavaScript and fail on real phones, so require 3 seconds on 3G on a $200 device for first-interaction…
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Progressive Web Apps and What's Next for MobileFluent 20162016-03-08
Argues that distribution is the real bottleneck for mobile software and that the web wins because URLs deliver the actual experience instantly. Proposes…
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What's inside the term 'progressive web apps'Fluent 20162016-03-08
Argues that progressive web apps are a concrete package: keep URL deployment while gaining OS presence and offline reliability by using service workers to…
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Components and ModulesEdge Conference 20152015-06-27
Panelists compare concrete tradeoffs: HTML Imports block by default but allow URL-traceable composition; ES6 modules give single-binding encapsulation and…
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Panel 1: OfflineEdge Conference 20132013-02-09
Conference panel argues that current offline APIs are broken in practice: AppCache serves cached assets even when online, updates only when the manifest…
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The future of JS ans YouNodeConf 20112011-05-05
Tracer is a JavaScript‑to‑JavaScript compiler written in JavaScript that takes proposed Harmony features and emits ES5 that runs in browsers or Node (it has a…
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Performance of feature detectionJSConf US 20112011-05-02
Feature detection often ends up putting JavaScript in front of the page and feature detection blocks rendering by forcing synchronous parsing, compilation and…
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