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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

HTML5 Texas Recap

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HTML5 TX Conference 2013

The HTML5 Texas 2013 Conference was great! Here are notes, slides and other resources I collected.

My blog posts of sessions that I attended.

JavaScript Workshop by Pamela Fox

Posting From WordPress to Google+

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Google+ WallpaperI’ve been working for the last few weeks to try and figure out an easy way to automatically add posts from my WordPress blog to my Google+ page. Hoping that someone else had already created a plugin, I searched in vain both in the WordPress plugins directory, as well as other WordPress sites and forums. I thought I had finally found a way, however, convoluted to be able to semi-automatically add a blog post to my Google plus page. However, it seems like every time I almost figure it out, there’s still one piece missing.

A cool thing, though, is that if you use the Google+ badge on your site, you can +1 your post (which you should do anyway for all of your posts, right?) which then allows you to share the post on your wall. It’s an extra step, but it makes it easy for you to easily share your latest post on your Google+ page.

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Panda vs. Human: Advanced eCommerce SEO & UX

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Speakers:
Greg Nudelman, CTO, Design Caffeine Inc.
Jaimie Sirovich, CTO, SEO Egghead Inc.

Sliders for Robots Pandas

Instead of sliders, use a single-level tree
Create hierarchy of values based on string prefixes, numerical ranges, etc.

K-I-S-S
Use the simplest form of search refinement

BOOK: Designing Search

Search landing pages from Amazon.com shows products, but also refined search

Show pandas and humans both products and facet filter states

Create Facet enabled landing pages

Yoast landing pages for magneto – blog post. ECommerce platforms that support facet enabled landing pages: endeca

Don’t make me thinkdrill

Don’t force user to make ambiguous and frustrating category decisions

Faceted allows

Avoid useless, superfluous content

Humans have intent, robots don’t.

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