What is it like building interfaces with an animated foundation? Why is it better? This will be an adventure into the magical cosmos of animation. Cartoons, Anvils, Jokes, Jokes people might not get, Dynamite, Stage Dives!
Web based animation has arrived, and it’s time for you to start taking advantage of it to engage and delight your users. And in this session we’ll see how. We’ll cover CSS Transitions and Animations, and throw some 2D and 3D Transforms into the mix as well, to understand how today’s most common, and eye […]
Right now creating high quality user experiences in HTML5 is very hard, and to get to where we are today we need a huge bundle of hacks and extreme techniques, many of which Andrew Betts covers in the session.
In this talk David Demaree, Developer and Product Manager at Typekit considers the web as a physical medium, constrained by bandwidth and device capabilities. He also looks at the web as an adaptive medium, where our work can consist not only of pixels and words, but also metadata and instructions for displaying content across all […]
In this keynote from Web Directions South 2013, Rachel Binx argues for a more human-centric approach to designing web experiences. She explores the ways in which people invest themselves online, the obligations companies should feel towards those investments, and offers solutions for treating users a bit more like people
Not all that many years ago, the then most popular computing platform, Windows, boasted a few tens of thousands of applications. By comparison, the Macintosh platform typically featured an order of magnitude fewer applications (though Mac aficionados would have always said it was quality that mattered most, and of course, how many apps did a […]
Yes, we’ve been a bit quiet in the leadup to Web Directions South for 2013, just over 2 weeks away. Have you go your ticket yet? Meanwhile, something to tide you over Enjoy! (and see you in Sydney for South)
Over the last few weeks, with our just completed What Do You Know series, along with my involvement in Nodebots Sydney, and the Apps4Broadband competition the ACBI recently completed, that I was involved with as well, I’ve started to make the connection between what’s happening with technology today, and what was happening when I was […]
It’s the conversation that will never apparently die, “web apps” versus “native apps”. But it is to me missing the point. Scott Jensen put it best a couple of years ago, when he argued “mobile apps must die” Native apps are a remnant of the Jurassic period of computer history, a local maximum that is […]
I’ve disagreed not infrequently with John Gruber over the last few years, particularly over his constant reflexive, largely evidence-free position that “native is always best” or “web based applications are always inferior”. Gruber is of course confident in the correctness of his position and so the articles he links to invariably back up his position—confirmation […]
All engineering is about constraints. Gravity, materials, CPU speed, amount of memory. Modern computing platforms have, in comparison with just a few years ago, let alone a couple of decades ago, almost unlimited capabilities. And yet we still whinge about their shortcomings. Meanwhile some of the most iconic of all computer programming, early gaming, including […]
As I recently reflected, a paper by Tim Berners-Lee about the World Wide Web for HyperText ’91, the then peak HyperText focussed conference in the world, was rejected. Who could be so short sighted? Well almost all of us really, but here’s what a prominent Hypertext researcher at the time said Links in hypertext must […]
In the last decade or so, the number of meetups and groups for Web professionals to connect and learn has increased amazingly. But locating a group we’ve found can be tricky. Some are on meetup.com, others use EventBrite. Many have their own websites. Over the years we’ve spoken at, and supported many such groups in […]
A week or so ago, Google announced (and started shipping) their Chromecast device, a simple $35 Dongle you plug into any HD TV, to give it Web capabilities. It can stream video and audio from the Web. Excellent. It also basically allows you to view any web content on a TV. Interesting to see this […]
Every few months, indeed, it seems with ever increasing frequency, the topic of the performance of web technologies comes up. Most recently, Drew Crawford’s much lauded, detailed piece “Why Mobile Web Apps are slow” has been doing the rounds. You knew it was just a matter of time before it was going to show up […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
