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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

Closing Panel at HTML5TX Conference

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Closing Panel at HTML5TX ConferenceTheme: Where has HTML5 come with the diversity of devices

Panelists: Christopher Schmitt, Ryan Joy, Burke Holland,  Estelle Weyl, Joe McCann, Mike Taylor

What is future-friendly?

Joe: being future-friendly with the web is supporting mobile, but a better strategy is a content strategy for all devices and where they are used. It’s okay to think of web browsers as end points, but your content should be able to live in all environments.

Desktop. Laptop. Smartphone. Tablet. Phablet. Xbox. PS Vita. Smart TVs.  That’s a lot of places your content can live.  Building specific experiences for each one of these simply doesn’t scale.  Let’s find out why and how to tackle such an enormous problem.

Being “”Future Friendly”” is not necessarily just a visual or interaction design decision, but an architectural decision as well.  Furthermore, being “”Future Friendly”” is not about the web or native:  it’s both and more.

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Luke Wroblewski – Designing Mobile Web Experiences

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UIE Web App Master’s Tour – Seattle, Washington – May 24, 2011

Convincing Clients to Care

Luke Wroblewski - Designing Mobile Web Experiences
Luke Wroblewski - Designing Mobile Web Experiences

Prediction in 2009 that smartphones would outsell PCs in 2012, it happened in 2010.

Home usage of PC since 2008 has decreased 20%

November 2010 – visits to web-based email sites decreased 7% and people accessing email on mobile devices increased 36%

Twitter – 40% of all tweets are sent via mobile; 16% of new users start on mobile. Top 2 Twitter mobile clients – twitter.com, m.twitter.com, sms

Facebook – 33% of users use mobile via Facebook mobile website, and clients on phones

Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013

Shift from what was the personal computer (PC) to what is the personal computer (smart phone).

Capabilities & Constraints

Capabilities

Location Systems: GPS, WiFi, Cell Tower Triangulation

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