The Web Ahead
A weekly podcast about changing technologies and the future of the web, discussing HTML5, mobile, responsive design, iOS, Android, and more. Hosted by Jen Simmons.
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106: Focusing on Customer Top Tasks with Gerry McGovern
As soon as you have many people chiming in on ...
As soon as you have many people chiming in on the direction of a website, you get disagreements, conflicting idea, and turf wars. What actually matters is what the site's customers want.
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105: Progressive Enhancement with Aaron Gustafson
Progressive Enhancement is a core principle of the web. But ...
Progressive Enhancement is a core principle of the web. But these days it seems a lot of folks don't quite understand what it's about. Aaron Gustafson joins Jen Simmons to break it down, and explain why and how your website should be built using the princ
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104: Remembering the Everyday Developer with Rachel Andrew
An inordinate amount of attention is being paid these days ...
An inordinate amount of attention is being paid these days to complex tools chains, JavaScript frameworks, and the assumption that the web is an application platform. Has the web actually been taken over by this one flavor of site?
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103: Animating the Web with Rachel Nabors
How can we use animation on the web to provide ...
How can we use animation on the web to provide information and improve the user experience? What uses should we avoid? How should we think about animation, including built-in animation experiences that are so common we don't see them anymore?
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102: Understanding Apple Watch with Josh Clark
Apple's Watch is almost here. What does it mean to ...
Apple's Watch is almost here. What does it mean to design for this space? Josh Clark joins Jen Simmons to dig in.
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101: Structuring Content with Eileen Webb
For years, we've put content on websites by dumping text, ...
For years, we've put content on websites by dumping text, images and video onto a page like it's one big blob. In the age of mobile, it's become painfully clear that really doesn't work anymore. Planning a content system of types and fields yields much be
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100: Designing the Web with Jeffrey Zeldman
For episode 100 of The Web Ahead, we have Jeffrey ...
For episode 100 of The Web Ahead, we have Jeffrey Zeldman, the Godfather of Web Standards, to talk about the past, present and future of making things for the web. We debate the pros and cons of everything from parallax scrolling to data mining.
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99: Implementing Responsive Images with Jason Grigsby
It's time to start using responsive images on our websites. ...
It's time to start using responsive images on our websites. You specify multiple files in your image HTML. Browsers download the best one for a user's screen size or context. Improve image quality. Save bandwidth. Make sites load faster.
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98: Handling Advertising with Mark Boulton
Advertising is a major business model for the web. Yet ...
Advertising is a major business model for the web. Yet most ads arrive from a parallel universe, an industry of CPMs, ad units, and inflexible demands. As designers and developers, how can we best work with ads on the web?
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97: Archiving The Internet with Jason Scott
The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of digitized culture ...
The Internet Archive is a treasure trove of digitized culture — films, software, audio, websites and more. How it it being collected, and how might the Internet Archive be our best hope for preserving the history of this era, as we invent the web?
