No more excuses left - let's build great things
summary
Argues that excuses are gone: browsers and standards now let developers build fast, compatible sites if they stop bloating pages and copying hacks. Points to Project Spartan / EdgeHTML as an evergreen engine with ~87% ES6 support, shows a real gym site taking 23 seconds and cites average site size ~2 MB with 101 requests, and recommends concrete tools—WebPagetest.org, caniuse.com and MDN—plus progressive enhancement, pointer events and TypeScript/Angular2 tradeoffs to actually fix performance and compatibility.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (30)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:19NO MORE EXCUSES! LET'S BUILD BEAUTIFUL THINGS ON THE WEB
- 2:45THE WEB AS WE KNOW IT IS IN DANGER...
- 3:57WE KEEP GOING TO OUR OWN HAPPY PLACE.
- 5:14WEBSITE OBESITY IS NOT UNCOMMON...
- 6:56THE WEB IS THE SUCCESS IT IS BECAUSE IT WAS SIMPLE TO WORK ON IT!
- 7:11POWER TOOLS ARE FOR EXPERT USERS - NOTA PRELIMINARY...
- 7:53WE NEED TO STOP GORGING ON TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION AND BUILD FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT US.
- 9:19WELL, PROBABLY ON MOBILE RIGHT?
- 10:14MODERN WEB DESIGN
- 11:59"MODERN" IS A NONSENSE TERM!
- 14:02OUR JOBS ARE NEVER BORING AND THERE IS SO MUCH TO DO!
- 15:44LET'S PLAY "FIND THE NECESSARY ACTION"
- 16:03OR "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?"
- 16:23A LOT HAS TO DO WITH OUTDATED SYSTEMS NOT GETTING UPGRADED.
- 17:28THIS EVEN BECAME A RUNNING GAG...
- 18:24OF COURSE THERE'S COOL INNOVATION TO PLAY WITH...
- 20:17PROJECT SPARTAN
- 22:40FRIENDS ROMANS, COUNTRYMEN, LEND ME YOUR EARS!
- 23:18REQUEST FEATURES!
- 23:58CHECK BACK FREQUENTLY AND BET ON INTEROP!
- 24:46THERE IS NO SINGLE PLAYER OR WINNER OF THE WEB!
- 24:57ALL BROWSER MAKERS TALK TO EACH OTHER AND FIND SIMILARITIES TO SUPPORT!
- 25:45CHROME TO IMPLEMENT MICROSOFT'S POINTER EVENTS
- 26:36ANGULAR 2 POWERED BY MICROSOFT TYPESCRIPT (TO EASE INTO ES6/ES2015)
- 27:29READ UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION AND LEARN INSTEAD OF COPY AND PASTE!
- 28:29CHECK BACK ON BROWSER INTEROP!
- 28:52BROWSERS CAN'T GET BETTER IF WE NEED TO CATER TO OLD MISTAKES...
- 33:15SPEED UP YOUR PRODUCTS!
- 35:06LET'S GO AND BUILD GREAT PRODUCTS FOR EVERYBODY
related talks
48mBecome a Frontend Developer Ninja using HTML5, JS and CSS3
38mDear Developer, the Web Isn't About You
35mFighting the Front-end Fatigue
49mThe Modern Struggle of Web Development
36mInto the web multiverse
19mPut down JS - how building fundamentals will help you LvlUp!
21mAsk not what JavaScript can do for you
54mDid we(b development) lose the right direction?