At the heart of Progressive Web Apps from the perspective of a developer are two pieces of technology: Web Manifests and Service Workers. We’ve covered Service Worker more than once at Web Directions, and I suspect we’ll do so again, but this week we bring you the most succinct session we’ve had on it to […]
Craig Sharkie’s presentation at our Respond conference was on how viewport units can make web typography responsive. And a great talk it was. But when we asked him to write an article for our new Scroll magazine, Sharkie went off at a bit of a tangent. He refers in the talk to “contextomy”, the word […]
This week’s Monday profile is Jen Simmons: web designer, front-end developer, Designer Advocate at Mozilla and host of The Web Ahead podcast. Jen spoke at our Respond Front End Design conference, and this profile appeared in our magazine, Scroll, which you can download right now. You can follow Jen on Twitter, and find her at […]
For some time now at our conferences we’ve been covering HTTP2, the first major update to HTTP since, well, just about the start of the Web. Its widespread adoption came more quickly than just about anyone might have thought, and now the majority of the world’s browsers, and more recent versions of servers support it. […]
While she was out here in Australia to run some workshops and keynote at our Respond conference, Karen McGrane generously gave us some of her time to chat about the past present and future of content, the Web and much more. About Karen McGrane If the internet is more awesome than it was in 1995, […]
Managing asynchronous actions in a code base is one of the hard problems in programming. Since the beginning, we’ve done this in JavaScript with callbacks (well for a long time we didn’t much care about asynchronous programming at all!) But this approach is unwieldy, particularly as our application logic gets more complex, and so recent […]
One of the informal benchmarks for a conference presentation is the number of tweets referencing it – and what they say, of course. The presentation Peter Wilson gave at Respond prompted many tweets, almost all of them expressing some surprise at how little they knew about HTTP2 and how clearly important it is. And that’s […]
This week’s Monday profile is Sara Soueidan, a freelance front-end web developer, writer and speaker from Lebanon – and SVG Guru. Sara spoke at our Respond Front End Design conference, and this profile appeared in our magazine, Scroll, which you can download right now. You can follow Sara on Twitter, and find her at https://sarasoueidan.com/. […]
Recently, someone who’ll remain nameless, but who holds something of an engineering leadership role at a high-profile financial institution in Australia, said to me “It’s not like this is rocket science. It’s only JavaScript”. This is someone who works with JavaScript day to day. But this attitude has somewhat overshadowed the language since its inception. […]
Recently we had the great privilege of having Ethan Marcotte speak at Respond, our Web design focussed conference. While Ethan (and other speakers) were in town, we tried a bit of an experiment. Why not record conversations with the speakers about their work, their ideas and their interests? We think it turned out pretty well, […]
The largest ever update to JavaScript, ECMAScript 6, AKA ES 2015 has been rapidly adopted by browsers, and features a significant number of big changes to the language. One of which is a fully fledged syntax for classes, akin to more traditional Object Orientation. We’ve got a whole day workshop on ES6 at Code 2016 […]
If you don’t know of Jeremy Keith, well now is a great time to get acquainted. Writer of such seminal books as DOM Scripting and HTML for Web Designers, he speaks frequently at conference around the World, including more than once at one of ours. He wrote for the first incarnation of our magazine, Scroll, […]
This week’s Monday profile is Karen McGrane, Author, renowned content strategist, and someone who’s been working to make the Web a better place since almost its inception. Karen spoke at our Respond Front End Design conference, and this profile appeared in our magazine, Scroll, which you can download right now. You can follow Karen on […]
In 2012, after many years of an annual single conference in Australia, Web Directions, we launched Code, a specifically developer focused, single track conference, in Melbourne, one of our very favourite cities anywhere. Right from the beginning it was a success, and over the years we’ve had some incredible speakers, focussing on core web platform […]
Symbols are a new primitive type in ES6. What use are they? Well, that’s exactly what Clark Pan set out to explain in this week’s video of the Week, presenting at Code 2015. Like to watch and read more like this? Be the first to score invitations to our events? Then jump on our once […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
