Evaluating Technology
A presentation at Mirror Conf in in Braga, Portugal by Jeremy Keith
EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY
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We shape our tools and therea ! er our tools shape us.” “ —John Culkin
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WWW
computers internet electricity WWW industrialisation
HTTP WWW URLs HTML
Humans are allergic to change. ” “ —Grace Hopper
HTTP WWW URLs HTML SGML DNS TCP/IP
SGML
<body> <title> <p> <h1> <h2> <h3> <ol> <li> <ul> <dl> <dt> <dd>
HTML
<article> <section> <main> <aside> <figure> <footer> <header>
HTML <canvas> <video> <datalist> <audio> <picture>
HTML 5 document conformance requirements should be designed so that web content can degrade gracefully in older or less capable user agents, even when making use of new elements, attributes, APIs and content models.” “ —HTML Design Principles
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HTML <canvas> <video> <datalist> <audio> <picture>
How well does it work?
How well does it fail?
service workers
How well does it work?
How well does it fail?
web components shadow DOM custom elements
HTML <canvas> <video> <datalist> <audio> <picture>
How well does it work?
How well does it fail?
service workers web components
ajax responsive web design progressive web app the extensible web
service worker manifest file progressive web app HTTPS + +
Who benefits?
developers users
sass less git gulp npm jQuery bootstrap angular react ember
What are the assumptions?
So ! ware, like all technologies, is inherently political. Code ine v itably reflects the choices, biases and desires of its creators.” “ —Jamais Cascio
$ e street finds its own uses for things.” “ —William Gibson Burning Chrome
Technolog y is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” “ —Melvin Kranzberg
What Technolog y Wants
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amish $ e Amish have the undeserved reputation of being luddites, of people who refuse to employ new technolog y. $ e Amish are steadily adopting technolog y — at their pace. $ ey are slow geeks.” “ —Kevin Kelly -ish
How well does it work? How well does it fail? Who benefits? What are the assumptions?
Thank you
We work with technology every day. And every day it seems like there's more and more technology to understand: graphic design tools, build tools, frameworks and libraries, not to mention new HTML, CSS and JavaScript features landing in browsers. How should we best choose which technologies to invest our time in? When we decide to weigh up the technology choices that confront us, what are the best criteria for doing that? This talk will help you evaluate tools and technologies in a way that best benefits the people who use the websites that we are designing and developing. Let's take a look at some of the hottest new web technologies and together we will dig beneath the hype to find out whether they will really change life on the web for the better.
for free. You
can too.
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