HTML5 is upon us and it offers a wide range of exciting possibilities when it comes to developing rich web interfaces. This talk will introduce you to a number of them and hopefully inspire you to create amazing things!
About Robert:
Robert has been doing web interface development for 12 years and he loves writing HTML, CSS and especially JavaScript. When he doesn't work as a consultant, he blogs at robertnyman.com, tweets at @robertnyman and gives talks at conferences.
Proxy Objects are going to an amazing new addition to the next version of ECMAScript. You will be able to allow a proxy to intercede any method or internal within the ECMA specification, allowing you to wrap everything in the JavaScript object domain. This is super powerful for logging, debugging, operation inversion, and if you can wrap the entire DOM and record timestamps, this might be the magic bullet that will allow you record and replay DOM interactions. We are bringing metaprogramming or Meta Object Programming to JavaScript and this will be your first peek at this awesome technology.
If you are talking hardcore-JavaScript there simply is no way around John (If you don't believe us check this out and understand why this is cool and fundamentally changing JavaScript):
'All the major libraries have ended up looking like jQuery. Now they just bicker about who is the fastest. Library authors stopped innovating 2-3 years ago.' - Dean Edwards
FuseJS is a new JS library that is bringing innovation back, solving problems thought unsolvable and challenging the JS status quo. I will give a brief history of FuseJS and discuss some of the areas FuseJS is innovating including sandboxed natives, event delegation, memory leak plugging, element cloning, feature testing/detection registries & profiling, API design, and customization.
About John
My first JavaScript project was a Super Mario Bros. game engine I made
in high school. I have always been drawn to JavaScript and other ECMAScript based languages. I spend most of my time tinkering with JavaScript frameworks, fixing
bugs, and running benchmarks. I love interacting with the JavaScript community and try to help as much as possible. I have a bachelors degree in Multimedia Instructional Design, an awesome wife, and an adorable Boston Terrier.
John at JSConf.us 2010
You like the idea of Object Oriented CSS, but your website has out-of-control CSS bloat. You know your performance is being impacted, but how do you move from organic CSS with no particular architecture to something lighter, more logical, and easier to maintain? How do we automate some of the heavy-lifting and stop wasting our own time?
CSS is typically the most difficult layer to automate, but a more clearly defined CSS architecture makes lint much more powerful. In this session, Nicole will show you how she improved the CSS at Facebook and demo tools that you can use to test your own CSS.
About Nicole
Nicole is an evangelist, CSS Ninja, and author. She started the Object-Oriented CSS open source project, which answers the question: how do you scale CSS for millions of visitors or thousands of pages? She also consults with clients such as the W3C and Facebook, and is the co-creator of Smush.it, an image optimization service in the cloud. She is passionate about CSS, web standards, and scalable front-end architecture for large commercial websites.
She co-authored Even Faster Websites and blogs at http://stubbornella.org.
CommonJS 2010 is moving beyond modules. Placing a hold on standards for IO, CommonJS discussions this year have focused on Binary data, Promises, Packages, and more. We've also moved away from ratifying particular proposals and more toward providing a forum for thoughful design. Join Kris for a pointed presentation on the state of CommonJS: what's done, what's being debated, and what needs to be done.
About Kris:
Kris Kowal got involved with the early discussions about CommonJS in January 2009 to propose a module system. Some time later, transformed, transfigured, and polymorphed, "require" and "exports" became the staple of the CommonJS effort. To encourage the proliferation of modules, Kris has remained involved in CommonJS to close the gap between modern JavaScript and interoperable JavaScript in a wide variety of JavaScript embeddings. Kris presently develops web applications and conducts web performance research for FastSoft, a startup out of California's Institute of Technology (Caltech), is an Apple alumnus, and is making an online map of Middle Earth labeled in Elvish.
Plugin-independent client side data storage, like HTML5 powered localStorage or IndexedDB, is becoming more relevant every day, though it had been there for ages. In fact, IE 5.5 was the first browser to offer data persistence in other forms than cookies. However, today, as we are online most of our time, handling offline situations has become important for many web apps. And for mobile dev, storage is crucial: You wouldn't want to pull some hundred k of data via a slow connection again and again.
"This talk will take a tour around existing client side storage mechanisms. We'll start with cookies and see why it's a bad place to stay. Then we'll quickly move on to the good neighbours, visiting ancient places as well as futuristic ones and investigating their ins and outs. And we'll also stop by the frameworks/wrappers that give easy access to them. To make things more interesting, we'll then board a submarine and dive into the crazy world of mobile devices, it's special demands and see what options exist over there. Finally, we'll have a look at performance and security concerns. Don't forget your towel!"
About Jens
Jens Arps is a Dojo-Enthusiast and Front-End-Developer at uxebu, and prefers Lavazza coffee over Segafredo. He switched very quickly from PHP to JavaScript, which he was hacking along already anyway. As a freelancer he was focused on web apps and user interfaces for the last years. He released some very forward thinking blog articles at http://jensarps.de.
Now at uxebu he can purely focus on JavaScript and develops applications for embedded devices. His rare free time is distributed evenly among JavaScript, his dog and his wif
The term "Semantic Web" has been around forever (well, almost, at least in Internet terms). This talk will provide an introduction to the Semantic Web as it evolves these days, with a strong focus on how to make use of semantically enriched data with JavaScript. We will show real world state-of-the-art examples, and also give an outlook on bleeding edge research on the topic, e.g. the JavaScript RDFa DOM API.
About Thomas
Thomas Steiner is a proud dad-of-two, a Research Scientist at Google, and a PhD student at UPC.edu. His main research interests these days are the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and the architectural style REST. He is an experienced - but far from excellent - JavaScript coder, and currently thrilled to see the success of semantic technologies on the Web. In addition to that he works on making the Internet a better place, tweets as @tomayac and blogs at blog.tomayac.com.
