Web Browsers: Om nom nom
summary
Argues that the browser is becoming the operating system: browsers can safely download and run arbitrary JavaScript, so new features should be prototyped in JS, spec’d, then implemented natively; proposes polyfills first and richer extension points like an expanded Content Security Policy to enable that. Shows practical wins: HTML slides that run anywhere, a $300 Ubuntu + Firefox family machine that worked, and recommends Ember + Rails API as the current workable stack.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:51All software is broken
- 2:25Web Browsers
- 4:49iPad
- 7:29Microsoft Word
- 9:16Chrome OS
- 9:50Google
- 10:33How standards work
- 11:26Downsides
- 12:45Web Standards Process
- 13:33Extending Browsers
- 14:20JavaScript
- 15:19Apps
- 16:20Rails
