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Director of Application Development

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HTML5 Texas JavaScript Workshop – Client-Side Storage

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HTML5TX JavaScript Workshop - Pamela FoxWeb technologies have taken a long time to progress.

A lot of the standards we see today are because browsers decided to implement new features.

HTML5 is now just supposed to be HTML. It is supposed to be a living standard.

Pamela needs an HTML app that helps choose her hair color.

Client-Side Storage

Cookies are used for all types of tracking, but they have issues with security, user trust (can be disabled), performance and size.

In the HTML spec, they considered the issues and came up with the following solutions.

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localStorage

  • Key / value pairs – hash table
  • Persistent on page reloads
  • Avoids HTTP overhead of cookies

You Got your MVC into my Components: Adding Bindings to Enyo

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by Ben Combee at the HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX

Enyo (http://enyojs.com) started as an web application framework, focusing on the problem of effectively building reusable UI components.  However, many app developers view problems through a Model-View-Controller (MVC) point-of-view where the UI is seen as a templating problem.  This talk looks at how the Enyo framework evolved in late 2012 to take on aspects of MVC, integrating support for Backbone models and data binding into our component & message passing architecture.  In doing so, it reveals what these two worlds can learn from each other, and how they both play into future work on the “web platform”.

Adding bindings to EnyoEnyo help build html apps with the feel of native apps.

A new way of thinking

How do you keep application state?

Templates are not enough. Interactive controls are hard to put into templates.

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