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Things I've learnt from my Hacker News web app

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Things I've learnt from my Hacker News web app

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Transcript

  1. Things I've learnt from my Things I've learnt from my

    Hacker News web app Hacker News web app

  2. Hello, I'm Chee Aun. • Hardcore web developer. • Created

    quite a bunch of fun little side projects. • Tweet a lot of interesting stuff at @cheeaun • Occasionally read Hacker News.

  3. What is Hacker News?

  4. news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com

  5. I built HackerWeb.

  6. HackerWeb • A simple read-only web app client for Hacker

    News. • Mobile-optimized, iOS-optimized. • Works on all modern browsers, hopefully. • Check it out at hackerwebapp.com
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  10. Cutting-edge web tech -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch, localStorage, sessionStorage, CORS, Application Cache,

    CSS Animation, CSS Media Queries, Flexible Box Layout (old spec), requestAnimationFrame, Web Workers, and more…

  11. Must-reads • How I built the Hacker News mobile web

    app • How I built the Hacker News mobile web app, Part 2 • Introducing HackerWeb

  12. Focus on 3 things 1. -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch (Momentum scrolling) 2.

    CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) 3. Application Cache

  13. 1 Momentum scrolling

  14. -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch • iOS-specific, for now. No official spec. •

    Introduced since iOS5 (October 2011). • For overflow:scroll elements.

  15. Before iOS5 • Two fingers to scroll overflow:scroll elements. •

    Unintuitive and undiscoverable. • Scrolling libs to the rescue: iScroll, Scrollability, TouchScroll, FTScroller, etc

  16. Starting from iOS5 • One finger to scroll overflow:scroll elements.

    • -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch adds momentum to it. • Scrolling libs are still in used due to bugs/quirks. • Bug: Can't scroll to top when tapping status bar

  17. Demo time • Normal scrolling: jsbin.com/uhiyac/1 • Momentum scrolling: jsbin.com/uhiyac/2

  18. Resources • Overthrow – overflow:auto polyfill • jQuery Mobile: touchOverflow

    • Nested divs with overflow:touch

  19. 2 CORS

  20. Before CORS • Use JSONP. • Request data from a

    server in a different domain. • Example: json-head.appspot.com/? url=http://www.google.com/&callback=test • A “hack”.

  21. CORS • A W3C Working Draft. • Allow JavaScript to

    make cross-domain requests. • An interplay between the server and the client. Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

  22. Use CORS today!

  23. Who implements CORS? • Google APIs • Amazon S3 •

    YouTube API • Dropbox API • GitHub v3 API • …and more

  24. Resources • Enable CORS • CORS isn’t just for XHR

    • Can I use CORS? • Using CORS - HTML5 Rocks • CORS Proxy

  25. 3 Application Cache

  26. AppCache • Easily make your web site/app offline. • A

    working draft. • A douchebag.

  27. Super simple steps Step 1. <html manifest="manifest.appcache"> Step 2. CACHE

    MANIFEST index.html stylesheet.css …

  28. Versioning CACHE MANIFEST # 2013-01-21:v1 index.html stylesheet.css …

  29. Google Reader

  30. Reeddit – Reddit web app client

  31. Track AppCache versions Use Google Analytics' event tracking

  32. Make local dev easier • Serve 404 for .appcache files

    • For HackerWeb, I use node server.js -noappcache

  33. Resources • A Beginner's Guide to Using the Application Cache

    • Fixing Application Cache Community Group • Appcache Facts

  34. More resources • Moobile – new mobile application framework built

    on MooTools • Ratchet – Prototype iPhone apps with simple HTML, CSS and JS components • HTML5 Rocks • Can I use…

  35. Thanks • cheeaun.com • twitter.com/cheeaun • github.com/cheeaun Images used in

    this presentation • flickr.com/photos/diathesis/2262012694/