Sessions at Front Row Conference with video

Thursday 20th October 2011

• Harmony - The Shape of Things to Come

  by Marek Stępień

  In his talk, Marek will cover what’s fresh and up and coming in the future implementation of ECMAscript “Harmony” and why the future of JavaScript looks bright for developers.

  • ECMAScript 6
  • ECMAScript Harmony
  • JavaScript

  At 10:30am to 11:00am, Thursday 20th October

  Coverage slide deck video

• HTML5 as A Gaming Console - Is It Possible?

  by Michal Budzynski

  Michal will talk about Open Web Technologies such as CSS, HTML and JavaScript in Game Development, it’s history, creating crossplatform games for desktops, mobiles, tablets and other devices Javascript could run on. During the talk he will present couple methods of animations, implementation of game’s logic and different ways to communicate between players.

  • CSS3
  • Games
  • HTML5
  • JavaScript

  At 11:30am to 12:15pm, Thursday 20th October

  Coverage video

Friday 21st October 2011

• The CSS of Tomorrow

  by Peter Gasston

  A brief look at the state of CSS3 today; what you can do right now, and what you’ll be able to do in the very near future. Then a look into the long-term future, to a time when CSS3 will enable page layouts far richer and more dynamic than we’d thought possible, and where CSS3 has taken on aspects of programming languages. What CSS developers will be learning years from now.

  At 11:00am to 11:45am, Friday 21st October

  Coverage slide deck video

• CSS3 Media Queries – For Real

  by Rudy Rigot

  Much is being said at the moment about the effective possibilities brought by the media-queries technology ; some will say it removes the need to feature browser sniffing, brought back by the current mobile explosion, although there’s not much in common between those two!

  The confusion is brought by one application of that technology, called “Responsive Web Design”, which allows to show the same webpage with a different layout depending on the screen resolution.

  Although the applications seem magical, many aspects of a web project can get kind of messy when Responsive Web Design is involved, for instance:

  • compatibility with old browsers is not worrysome by itself, but can have side-effects emerging
  • why it is being said that Responsive Web Design is dreadful for performance
  • why it’s better to not even consider Responsive Web Design sometimes, and in which cases
  • how you should do to keep all your wireframing/prototyping best practices at their best despite a website that never looks the same!

  At 11:45am to 12:30pm, Friday 21st October

  Coverage video