Kyle Simpson and Tammy Everts on the challenges of the modern web - a podcast by OReilly Media
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The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Rising barriers to entry, the complexity of the modern web, and a preview of upcoming Fluent sessions.
In this episode of theO’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with two of the program chairs for the upcomingO’Reilly Fluent Conference(July 11-14 in San Jose),Kyle SimpsonandTammy Everts. Simpson is co-author of theHTML 5 Cookbook, and the author of theYou Don’t Know JSseries of books. Everts is the chief experience officer atSpeedCurveand the author ofTime is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance.
Discussion points:
- Simpson says that one of the biggest challenges facing JavaScript developers is that the previously low barrier to entry has been raised significantly: “JavaScript developers are facing a monumental task of juggling a vast ecosystem of tools and processes that go around, and on top of, and in front of, what used to just be opening a text file and typing JavaScript.”
- Everts talks about the challenges of designing for the modern web: “The web has become so complex, and the user base and the types of devices and bandwidths that people are experiencing are so incredibly diverse,” she says. “Developers and designers are somehow magically expected to take all these assets, all these scripts and make them perform reliably and consistently on everything from a smartphone over a 2G connection to someone who has blazingly fast internet.”
- Simpson and Everts preview numerousFluent sessions and presentations.
Other links:
- Everts’ recent O’Reilly blog post “Building for the modern web is really, really hard”
- Simpson’s free ebookJavaScript and HTML5 Now
- Everts co-curatesWPO Stats, a collection of performance case studies
- Redux, the open source JavaScript library often used with theReactJavaScript library
- The W3C’s list of web accessibility evaluation tools
- Simpson's recent postFluent: Trainings To Further The Web
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