PWAs & Project Fugu: Closing The Relevance Gap Alex Russell, Partner Program Manager Microsoft Edge Chromium’s Project Fugu is an open collaboration to push the capabilities of the web platform forward through standards. When combined with Progressive Web Apps, we’re approaching a point where whole classes of applications that were previously exclusive to native apps […]
Google Play Store, Apple App Store, and Microsoft Store all accept Progressive Web Apps.
At Code, @firt takes us through the best practices and shows what’s possible and what’s not with current guidelines and technologies
Desktop PWAs. About time. Diego González, Program Manager Microsoft Edge It’s 2021. Long gone are the times where a PWA was only a shortcut in a user’s home screen. PWAs play nicely with desktop environments. It’s about time. The presentation goes through cutting edge features and APIs that allow a PWA to integrate seamlessly with […]
How does the web and web standards advance and evolve?
At Code, @bkardell will explore this through a look at canvas and new APIs like OffscreenCavas and Custom Paint.
The 2021 edition of dealing with files on the Web Thomas Steiner, Developer Relations Engineer Google The file input element and the download attribute on anchor elements used to be the primary way for working with files on the Web. Not anymore! In this presentation, I will show modern ways of dealing with files in […]
The State of Augmented Reality in the Web Platform Ada Rose Cannon, Developer Advocate, co-chair Samsung Internet, W3C Immersive Web Groups The WebXR API can be used to make VR and AR capable websites this talk will introduce some of the newer augmented reality features and how to use them. About Ada Rose Cannon As […]
How to outsmart time: Building futuristic JavaScript applications using Temporal Ujjwal Sharma, Compilers Hacker Igalia For close to 25 years now, JavaScript developers have suffered at the hands oftime: the Date object. We have tried all sorts of solutions from using popularlibraries like Moment.js all the way to handling dates and times on the backend. […]
What could you do with a neural network in your browser? Ningxin Hu, Principal Engineer Intel Neural Networks are an approach to machine learning (specifically Deep Learning) that are now widely used from supercomputers to your smartphone (via APIs like CireML in iOS and Neural Networks API on Android).The Web Neural Network API (WebNN) in […]
Practical uses for Web Components Ben Taylor, Full-Stack Developer Explosion Web Components can feel like a bad fit for a JavaScript tech stack. If you’ve got a legacy codebase, you might be thinking about switching costs. Or you’re already running a modern stack and don’t see a need for them. But this shouldn’t be an […]
We’re incredibly excited, and privileged to have @SaraSoueidan putting together the program for inaugural AAA A11y Engineering conference, (+ speaking herself).
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The State of PWAs Hemanth HM, Member Of Technical Staff PayPal In 2020 PWAs turned 5. So in that milestone year, what’s the reality of PWA developer adoption? Hemanth HM, author of the chapter on PWAs in the most recent Web Almanac, a comprehensive report on the state of the web, backed by real data […]
Penny MchLachlan, Product Manager Chrome Web Platform, Google Developers will learn What does the ‘install capability’ unlock for users What use cases are typically suitable for installed web apps, why & how not to annoy users by forcing them to install When to ask the user to install for common use cases (and when not […]
Eva PenzeyMoog, Principal Designer, Author 8th Light, Design for Safety What do we really mean when we talk about “ethics” in tech? What are we actually aiming for, and what specifically can we all do to get there? It’s not enough to point out existing issues with racist, sexist tech, products that are easily weaponized […]
Today we’re announcing the first of our speakers for the 2021 edition of our long running Code conference, taking place September 17 and 24–like all our other conferences this year, it’s online. Read on for details and a special offer for you. Just a reminder too that Global Scope our brand new 100% JavaScript focussed conference is coming up […]
A dependency deep dive Jason O’Neill, Software Engineer Culture Amp Modern JavaScript is all about dependencies. With over 1.5m packages on NPM, and 5114 packages used in “Create React App”, the package ecosystem can feel overwhelming. But underneath the complexity are basic rules that give structure to our projects. In this talk, I’ll unpack the […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
