After we ran the Wrap summary on Monday of Yoav Weiss’s presentation at Code 16, a few folks asked if they could watch the video. Since our focus this week has been on performance, and how that will again be an important topic at Code 17, it seems entirely appropriate to end the week with […]
Continuing the theme of performance from the Monday Wrap of Yoav’s talk – a theme that was quite evident at Code 16 and, not surprisingly, will feature again at Code 17 – our short video this week is of Hadi Michael’s talk from last year’s Code. Hadi is someone to keep your eye on. A […]
Our Video of the Week this time is the opening keynote to Code 16, delivered by Tim Kadlec and titled Once More With Feeling. Tim is a performance expert, and the title of this talk refers to the recognition that what really matters for performance is how fast the experience feels. It’s a great point, […]
Josh Duck is a Brisbane native and front-end engineer at Facebook. He’s contributed to React, managed the open source effort behind Relay, and has helped build Facebook products like Profile and Search. Josh came to last year’s Code conference to give a presentation that fascinated all of us as a case study of sorts – […]
Peter Wilson’s subject at Respond 16 was performance, which sits alongside security as a major factor designers and developers have to take into account on today’s web. You may have the most beautiful and useful website in the world, but if it takes too long to load, site visitors are unlikely to stick around to […]
This week’s feature video comes from our Respond conference last year (Respond 2016 is a couple of months off yet, with early bird pricing still available), a fantastic presentation from Yesenia Perez-Cruz (who since then has been turning up speaking all over the world!) on how the decisions designers (“just one more weight of this […]
If there was a theme which guided my thinking about the focus of Web Directions, and the Web, in 2015, it was “performance is everyone’s problem” (I captured some of my thoughts for The Fetch earlier this year as well). At all our events, Respond (for Web designers), Code (for Front End Engineers) or Web […]
Performance and availability of 3rd party scripts doesn’t have to be a worry. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.
This presentation covers a few lessons and guidelines to demystify the Z-dimension – what a stacking context is, how events are distributed, how transforms (3D & 2D) are handled by the browser, and how to untangle a vertical mess. And, as a bonus, how a better understanding of depth leads to higher-performing websites.
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.
This session looks at both page delivery and user interaction to highlight patterns and areas of improvement starting with proper benchmarking and profiling.
Can style guides lead to better UI code? Better performance? Yes, absolutely. In this talk, Nicole will show you how she and her team collaborated with Trulia engineers and designers to create a living style guide. She’ll also share some yummy data about how that affected real user measurements. Like what you see? Want a […]
Before we fork out for expensive performance monitoring tools, what if we took the time to listen to what our browser was trying to tell us? We can discover a whole range of features you may have ignored. Discover how to debug network latency issues, memory leaks and other performance fun in our browsers. With web applications becoming more like desktop apps, remaining open for days at a time. Now is the time to listen to your browsers pain and walk away with a new toolkit of performance best practices.
As browsers explode with new capabilities and migrate onto devices users can be left wondering, “what’s taking so long?” Learn how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the web itself conspire against a fast-running application and simple tips to create a snappy interface that delight users instead of frustrating them.
In this talk, you’ll learn what’s going on inside the browser that can slow JavaScript down and how that can end up creating a “slow page”. You’ll also learn how to overcome the conspiracy against your code by eliminating performance bottlenecks.
I’ve been admiring the Web Directions events for years, and was honored to be part… What a fantastic event!
Ethan Marcotte Inventor of 'Responsive Web Design'
