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Notes from Front-end London January

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AngularJS - Todd Motto

  • Client side MVC js framework
  • Focus on data-driven, not DOM manipulation
  • Modern web
    • Client side templating
    • Web components / shadow Dom
    • HTML5 data- attributes
    • Single page apps
    • More JavaScript
  • MVC
    • Model - data coming from the server
    • View - HTML and components for DOM rendering
    • Controller - mates the two together
  • Two way data binding
    • Live updates / syncs between updating the model client and server side
  • Handlebar-esk templating language
  • Scoped functions for callback-less data manipulation (no DOM)
  • Templating - scalable, reusable and fast components
  • Directives - reusable chunks of code / logic
  • Dom programming - HTML is now the dynamic language eg: ng-switch
  • Filters - instant DOM filtering
  • Factory - abstract logic (dry)
  • 'Thinking Angular' - forget the dom exists.

Are you browsing comfortably? - Steve Workman

  • The Web on TV
  • Most people can get some form of internet on their TVs, most through games consoles
  • There are more games consoles sold, than smart phones
  • TV, you're usually far away - Microsoft's "10ft experience"
  • Font sizes need to be big on TV... Double it!
  • Browser viewport on TV is all over the shop
  • "Relying on viewport lead to arguably poor designs." - Luke W
  • TV remotes are complicated enough as it is
  • Second screen apps try to fill the gap
  • Voice input will work well (some day)
  • You can assume there's a D-pad. That's about it
  • No solution, so puppies
  • Pointer / Touch events working group, working on some kind of API
  • Do you use the browser on your TV? "No"
  • Your TV in 2013 has the power of about an iPhone 3Gs
  • Are there any solutions?
    • Big companies are making their TV sites completely different
    • RWD rules do kind of all right
  • Designing for TV, "a big circle of nightmares"
  • Media types - just about all respond to screen
  • Do media queries with em
  • If we can't tell that it's a TV, perhaps we should ask?
  • "Couch Mode"
  • Internet TV is just the tip of the iceberg - what about wearables?

ServiceWorker and the offline web - Tom Ashworth

  • Offline - Why do we care?
    • We don't have as much connection as we'd like to think
    • Awesome places and poor connection go hand in hand
  • Massive issues with space constraint for storing things locally
  • When are you actually online
  • #offlinefirst the network is a potentially-unavailable resource
  • ServiceWorkers
  • <live code>
  • Worker will pickup cross-origin requests - you can cache 3rd party assets