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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56: The Nature of the Web with Jeremy Keith
Wonder-developer Jeremy Keith joins Jen Simmons to talk about comments ...
Wonder-developer Jeremy Keith joins Jen Simmons to talk about comments on websites, the birth of the web, progressive enhancement, control and much more.
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55: Design Research with Erika Hall
What is design research, why is it valuable, and how ...
What is design research, why is it valuable, and how can you work research into the planning of your project? Erika Hall, author of the new book Just Enough Research, joins Jen Simmons to explain.
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54: Jekyll and CMS-less websites with Young Hahn and Dave Cole
After many years of using Content Management Systems that store ...
After many years of using Content Management Systems that store content in a database, there's a movement to store content in files instead. Jekyll and other tools, including github, are springing up to create a new ecosystem of file-based tools. Young Ha
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53: CSS Animations with Val Head
CSS has three powerful specifications that can be used to ...
CSS has three powerful specifications that can be used to animate things on the page: CSS Transitions, Transforms, and Animations. Designer and author Val Head joins Jen Simmons to explain how they work.
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52: eBooks with NellieMcKesson
Electronic book formats are changing. EPUB3 and HTML5 are providing ...
Electronic book formats are changing. EPUB3 and HTML5 are providing tools to create new forms of books, with richer experiences. Nellie McKesson joins Jen Simmons to explain where digital books have been, and where they are going.
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51: Rendering Engines, Vendor Prefixes & Chrome Blink
Chrome recently announced they will replacing the webkit rendering engine ...
Chrome recently announced they will replacing the webkit rendering engine with a new one, named Blink. What's up with that? To find out, Chris Wilson and Paul Irish join Jen Simmons to explain rendering engines and vendor prefixes.
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50: Web Platform Docs
After years of many independent sites documenting and teaching web ...
After years of many independent sites documenting and teaching web development, the W3C and a consortium of browser makers and companies have come together to create a central resource for information about web technologies — Web Platform Docs. Peter Lubb
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49: CSS Layouts with Rachel Andrew
Page layout on the web has been constrained for many ...
Page layout on the web has been constrained for many years by the available technologies. But new technologies that are coming in CSS3 — flexbox, grid layout, regions, & more — promise for an interesting future. Rachel Andrew joins Jen Simmons to explain.
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48: Danny Sullivan
Danny Sullivan joins Eric Meyer to reminisce about the early ...
Danny Sullivan joins Eric Meyer to reminisce about the early days of web search, directories versus crawlers, the panoply of search engines in the mid-1990s, page counts as serious bragging rights, the brief period when there were search engines that only
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47: Jen Robbins
Jen Robbins talks about the very early days of web ...
Jen Robbins talks about the very early days of web design, O'Reilly, GNN, wrestling with the technology and more.
