Tales of Suckage and Awesomeness

Full Frontal 2012 talk on tales of the browser wars.

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1. TALES OF SUCKAGE AND AWESOMENESS Chris Wilson @cwilso
2. NOT a member of Flock of Seagulls (surprisingly)
3. NCSA Mosaic
4. non-NCSA Mosaic Flickr: rberteig
5. NCSA Mosaic
6. The bane of getting NCSA Mosaic code written.
7. NCSA Mosaic
8. Lesson 1 Freedom to explore is a powerful thing.
9. Most of the time. <B>this<I>is</B> a bad idea.</I>
10. Lesson 2 Structure is a good thing.
11. Everyone’s an author
12. Lesson 3 You might want to secure that network.
13. SPRY, not Spyglass
14. 1995 - Joining Microsoft and the IE team
15. IE 3.0: Stylish and in pieces
16. <BLINK>
17. <MARQUEE>
18. Lesson 4 Serendipity is good.
19. Lesson 5 People like flashy stuff.
20. Comic Chat
21. IE4 - The DHTML era dawns
22. DHTML vs dHTML %ZOBNJD
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23. Lesson 6 Dynamic > static.
24. The Web as universal platform [Netscape will] reduce Windows to a set of poorly debugged device drivers.” -Marc Andreessen, 1995 “
25. Lesson 7 You don’t always get to be the one to deliver on your goals.
26. Lesson 8 IE4 deserved its success.
27. Dynamic changes hasLayout
28. Compatibility becomes a problem
29. Lesson 9 Do it right the first time.
30. More serendipity XMLHTTPRequest
31. IE5.0, 5.5, 6.0 - and the IE hiatus More of the same.
32. UI Layout - grid and flow
33. Lesson 10 Have clear goals. (aka: “Be careful what you optimize for.”)
34. “Now is the time for the medium of the web to outgrow its origins in the printed page. Not to abandon so much wisdom and experience, but to also chart its own course, where appropriate.” - John Allsopp, “A Dao of Web Design” - 2000
35. The Mash-up Revolution
36. Lesson 11 The whole can be more than the sum of the parts.
37. IE7
38. Web 2.0 “Web 2.0 isn’t a set of technologies - it’s caring about your user experience.” -Ben Galbraith, 2006
39. Lesson 12 Care about your user experience (more than anything else).
40. The glorious mobile revolution of the 2000s •Responsive, engaging experiences •Sensors! •App Store
41. From this...
42. To this.
43. Choosing A Mobile Device “My cell phone now has to be my guitar tuner.” -me, 2009
44. Meeting the bar - http://phenomnomnominal.github.com/
45. Why didn’t the iPhone = mobile Web explosion? •None of that cool stuff was exposed in web platform •No accelerometer, geolocation, audio input, touch events, ... and a slow JavaScript engine! •No app store!
46. Access to capabilities in the Web is catching up •2D/3D graphics, storage, geolocation, integration into “native OS”, audiovideo IO, touch, ... •Dive computer is barely still an outlier
47. Lesson 13 Integration is key.
48. Lesson 14 Make some magic happen.
49. @cwilso +Chris Wilson cwilso.com cwilso@[google.com|gmail.com]