Practical Progressive Enhancement – my talk at the Future of Web Apps London 2010

I just got back from the Future of Web Apps in London where I was asked to fill in a talk quickly. The topic I picked was progressive enhancement and HTML5 as a re-boot of web development as we know it. Here are the slides, the audio recording and the links mentioned in the deck for you to check out. I really think that the concept of rendering JS server-side with node and re-using the same widgets client-side is an amazing step forward in not blocking out users whilst maintaining a single code base.

The slides

The Slides are available on Slideshare:

Audio recording

You can find the audio recording on archive.org.

Links mentioned in the talk

• Seven rules of unobtrusive Javascript and Chinese translation
• Easy YouTube and its effects Video 1 and Video 2
• London Tube strike map
• Petition to the government to upgrade from IE6 and respons
• Modernizr to test for browser support of HTML5 and CSS3 features and has.js to test for JavaScript features
• Geomaker and source
• UK House Prices
• Yahoo Firehose research
• Rendering YUI widgets server and client side and video of Dav Glass explaining the details
• YUI supporting capability-based loading and CSS transitions
• Problems of scaling web sites and redesigns
• Douglas Crockford: Loopage

Tags: fowa, node, progressivenhancement, YUI