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1,000,000 Daily Users and No Cache
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm shares the lessons learned while scaling their game platforms to handle millions of users, each game being built by small teams of two developers without dedicated ops.
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Getting Truth Out of the DOM
Yehuda Katz discusses techniques for keeping data out of the DOM based on the idea that retrieving such data from the DOM involves a performance penalty and may affect data integrity.
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Mobile HTML5
Scott Davis explains how to prepare a website for mobile devices from small tweaks –smaller screen sizes, portrait/landscape- to using HTML5’s local storage, application cache, and remote data.
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Mobile Web Development with HTML5
Roy Clarkson and Josh Long discuss the mobile browsers, the hardware constraints, the existing simulators, emulators and JavaScript frameworks, and the HTML5 support for doing mobile development.
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High Performance HTML5
Steve Souders discusses the impact of website speed on users providing advice on creating high performance HTML5 applications.
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The Mobile Browser as a Platform
Maximiliano Firtman offers tips for creating applications for mobile browsers, showing how HTML5 can help, and explaining the need for web performance optimization for mobile devices.
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Angry Birds on HTML5
Joel Webber explains what it took for Google to port Angry Birds to Chrome/HTML5, the challenges and technical solutions used.
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Core HTML5 Canvas: Mind-blowing Apps in Your Browser
David Geary introduces the HTML5 Canvas element API and functionality through demoes showing how one can draw and manipulate images and how to create sprite-based animations.
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WebSockets: The Web Communication Revolution
Brad Drysdale makes a case for WebSockets, comparing it with current solutions – HTTP, AJAX, Comet-, and showing its low overhead and latency, making it a better solution for today’s web applications.
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Single Page Apps and the Future of History
Michael Mahemoff discusses how HTML5 can be used to create single page web apps offering advice to create a better user experience, built-in accessibility and better SEO results.
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Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms
Mark S. Miller explains how to create secure applications in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 by turning JavaScript into a distributed secure programming language.