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Making the Web Faster at Google and Beyond
Ilya Grigorik shares details on Google’s project to make the web faster: some of their findings on what slows down the web experience and how they improved it in Chrome and services.
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Firefox Developer Tools
Joe Walker covers present and future Firefox development tools for editing, inspection, history and control.
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers … or Why Speed Matters
Lars Bak presents several language virtual machines (Self, Strongtalk, Hotspot), why they matter and how they influenced V8 and Dart. His talk is centered on performance.
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Panel: The Battle of Modest Proportions
Jeremy Ashkenas, Tom Dale, Matt DeBergalis, Eric Ferraiuolo, Igor Minar respond to questions from audience regarding various web application issues.
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Polyfilling The HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript
Addy Osmani introduces polyfills, JavaScript shims that can be used to simulate HTML5 functionality in older browsers such as IE 6-8. He explains how to write new polyfills.
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The Future Is Layered
Alex Russell discusses the state of web technologies, the internal tensions between specifying new features for a platform and its adoption, and what could be done to achieve a layered architecture.
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Dart: A Modern Web Language
Kasper Lund discusses the virtues of JavaScript and its weak points, showing why a new programming language for the web was needed, and how Dart meets that need.
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Performance from the User‘s Perspective
Alois Reitbauer explains why the server response time and synthetic transactions are not good enough performance indicators, presenting a way of measuring page performance as perceived by the user.
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HTML 5 Design and Development Tooling
Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.
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JavaScript Today and Tomorrow: Evolving the Ambient Language of the Ambient Computing Era
Allen Wirfs-Brock reviews the evolution of JavaScript, observing its current status and foreseeing its near future, supporting the idea that JavaScript’s role will be even more predominant.
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Building Offline Access to Websites Using HTML5
Israel Hilerio presents how to cache data locally with HTML5 technologies: IndexedDB, App Cache, DOM Storage and File API.