Bruce Lawson
where else to find them
website:https://www.brucelawson.co.uk
github:brucelawson
bluesky:brucel.bsky.social
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linkedin:bruce-lawson-34b44
speakerdeck:brucel
what they talk about
all 12 in the filters
where they keep going back
- Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)2 editions2018–2020
- CSS Day2 editions2018–2025
all 20 in the filters
on a stage with
- Seren Davies2×
- Chris Millsonce
- David Roussetonce
all 8 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Stefan Judis23 talks
- Christian Heilmann58 talks
- Jeremy Keith27 talks
- Ben Schwarz10 talks
- Kyle Simpson24 talks
- Nicole Sullivan18 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The goose and the common | CSS Day 2025 | 2025-06-05 |
Big Tech is hoovering user data and training AI on scraped content, and regulators plus grassroots action actually change behaviour: Open Web Advocacy pushes… | ||
| Whose web is it, anyway? | axe-con 2023 | 2023-03-15 |
Median desktop pages hit 2.3 megabytes median page (up 397% in a decade) while median mobile pages are ~2 MB, and a gigabyte costs 16.16% of monthly income… | ||
| JavaScript Open Source Awards 2021 | JSNation Live 2021 | 2021-06-09 |
A filmed awards ceremony lists 500 unique projects whittled to 25 nominees across five categories and names winners so viewers know what actually stood out… | ||
| Whose web is it anyway? | Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2020 | 2020-09-17 |
History and current power plays over web standards: browser vendors, grassroots implementers, and funders decide what ships. Examples: crowdfunded work to add… | ||
| HTML: How to Make Loveliness | GOTO Chicago 2020 | 2020-04-27 |
Uses concrete results: swapping client-side React rendering for server-side HTML cuts Javascript from 770 KB to 238 KB and drops load time from ~17 s to 4 s… | ||
| How To Make Loveliness: an HTML treasure hunt | International PHP Conference Spring 2019 | 2019-06-03 |
Shows how using picture element for WebP-first responsive images, label wrapping input for checkbox hit targets, and schema.org microdata (article/itemprop)… | ||
| The HTML Treasure Hunt: from JavaScripter to Front End Superhero in 29 Minutes | iJS London 2019 | 2019-05-13 |
A practical tour of HTML specifics: use the picture element and responsive image sources to cut payloads (one listener reports a page 70% smaller), prefer… | ||
| This is for everyone | Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2018 | 2018-10-11 |
Argues that accessibility is broader than permanent impairment and gives concrete fixes: bad animation breaks dyslexic and ADHD readers (example: moving JIRA… | ||
| After party | Inclusive Design 24 (#id24) 2018 | 2018-10-11 |
Hosts recap highlights and behind‑the‑scenes hiccups from a 24‑hour marathon, noting a demo of assistive tech for kitchen appliances that suffers technical… | ||
| CSS-in-JS: FTW | CSS Day + UX Special 2018 | 2018-06-14 |
A concrete claim: component-oriented styling can compile to flat, namespaced CSS and cut runtime cost. A team prototypes styler ball that transpiles component… | ||
| Interview Session with Lea Verou | You Gotta Love Frontend Conference 2018 | 2018-05-24 |
Houdini claims to expose low-level browser internals so developers can register new CSS properties and write custom CSS functions and thus avoid waiting years… | ||
| Interview Session with Vitaly Friedman | You Gotta Love Frontend Conference 2018 | 2018-05-24 |
A rapid-fire interview that names real choices and numbers: a defense of HTML/CSS longevity with the example of variable font weights (want weight 432?), a… | ||
| Interview Session with Hui Jing | You Gotta Love Frontend Conference 2018 | 2018-05-24 |
Starts as a national team basketball player and moves into web work by building an association site using inspect element to copy and patch together designs… | ||
| This is for Everyone | DeltaV Conference 2018 | 2018-05-10 |
Argument: design for real constraints not vague ideals. Claims include concrete wins: Flipkart Lite: 40% more returning visitors 63% higher conversions from… | ||
| The HTML Treasure Hunt: from JavaScripter to Front End Superhero in 29 Minutes | iJS 2018 Spring | 2018-04-11 |
Demonstrates concrete wins from using HTML semantics: the picture element serves WebP and cuts image bytes by 25–34% and one site shrinks a page by 70%… | ||
| If you're going out of San Francisco, be sure to wear Web Standards in your hair | JSConf.Asia 2018 | 2018-01-25 |
A concrete claim: Wix’s styler.ball is a build‑time CSS‑for‑components preprocessor that compiles to static cross‑browser CSS, adds pseudo elements and rule… | ||
| If You're Going Out Of San Francisco… | FFConf 2017 | 2017-11-09 |
Argues that the real problem is getting the free open web to the other four billion and shows a concrete tool: Stylable, a CSS preprocessor used at Wix to keep… | ||
| SmartWeb 2016 - Bruce Lawson | SmartWeb 2016 | 2016-09-20 |
HTML responsive images use the picture element plus srcset and sizes (W and X descriptors) to give the browser a candidates list so it picks the best file… | ||
| WWW - WORLD WIDE WEB, NOT WEALTHY WESTERNERS' WEB | ColdFront16 | 2016-09-01 |
Less than half the world has fast web access—about 1.1 billion—and the next four billion arrive on low‑end phones and flaky networks; Opera Mini routinely… | ||
| WWW: World Wide Web, Not Wealthy Westerners' Web | You Gotta Love Frontend 2016 | 2016-06-27 |
Global numbers and concrete wins decide: 3.2 billion people are online but only 1.1 billion have fast access, and Opera Mini compresses 28 PB into 4.5 PB a… | ||
| Making bad ads sad. Rad! | Velocity 2016 Santa Clara | 2016-06-20 |
Measurement shows ads make pages heavy: on top media sites 9% of page, 54% of load time and 55% of bandwidth while generating an average of 279 ad URL calls… | ||
| WWW: World Wide Web, not Wealthy Westerners' Web | Codemotion Amsterdam 2016 | 2016-05-11 |
Shows that reaching the next 4 billion needs engineering not slogans: Opera Mini’s Thor server farm in Iceland compresses pages up to 90% and delivers a single… | ||
| Ensuring a High Performing Web for the Next Billion People | Velocity Conference Amsterdam 2015 | 2015-10-28 |
Opera Mini is a proxy browser used by 350 million people that renders sites server‑side, compresses pages about 90% compression, and served 23 PB last month at… | ||
| Ensuring a Performant Web for the Next Billion People | Velocity Santa Clara 2015 | 2015-05-27 |
Opera reports 350 million users and 120k transactions per second, compressing 23 petabytes last month; Opera Mini uses a server-rendered binary format that… | ||
| on Optimizing the Web for Emerging Economies | Velocity Santa Clara 2015 | 2015-05-27 |
Five billion future users arrive on low-end $100 Android/Nokia phones over slow, patchy networks (India islands, Himalayan ranges) and often use proxy browsers… | ||
| How to Destroy the Web Opera | Codemotion Roma 2014 | 2014-04-09 |
A rapid checklist of tactics that actually break access: deliberately code only for WebKit (PPK poll showed 32% would prefer one engine), do browser sniffing… | ||
| Browser's performance roundtable | Codemotion Roma 2014 | 2014-04-09 |
Browsers converge on concrete fixes: Opera contributes ">1000 Chromium commits" and focuses on cutting Blink’s memory and power use for low-spec devices while… | ||
| Intervista | Codemotion Roma 2014 | 2014-04-09 |
Claims that Opera is the fastest browser (an award cited) and that engineering prioritizes low-end devices, explicitly aiming to run on old and weak phones… | ||
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