The Web is Different

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Meta Refresh 2018 will cover four primary topics:

User research and design -- how user research is carried out and translated into design (whether engineering or designing user interactions).
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You must be a practising web developer or designer, and must be able to show how your own work has advanced the state of the web in the past year. You are expected to present original work that your peers — this event’s audience — recognise as being notable enough to deserve a stage. If you are excited about someone’s work and believe it deserves wider recognition, we recommend you contact them and ask them to submit a proposal.

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The 2018 edition is a multi-track event with the following session formats:

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Conference date: 26-27 October, 2018

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Submitted Jun 6, 2018

Section: Full talk Technical level: Intermediate

From floppy drives to CD-ROMs to the App Store, over the years we’ve used many ways to get our applications into our users’ hands. Out of all these application delivery methods, the Web is the most ubiquitous and unique. What makes it so different? How can you, as a product designer or a business, play to its strengths? And where does it fall flat?

Let’s take a closer look at features of the Web platform that make it different from native platforms, and see some examples of how to use them effectively.

Outline #

The Web started as a technology for sharing simple textual documents over the network. Today, it has turned into a full-featured application development platform that supports complex typography, images, videos, 3D graphics, audio playback and synthesis, and even virtual reality. How did we get here? More importantly, how does the Web’s unique heritage make it different from other ways of building and delivering applications?

This talk is divided into two parts. In the first part, we go back in time and look at some of the major milestones in the evolution of the Web browser that allowed it to transform from a simple document viewer to a platform for building full-fledged applications.

In the second part, we take a look at some unique features of the Web platform that make developing, designing, and conducting business on it starkly different from doing so on native platforms. A few of the things we will talk about are:

URLs, and what they mean for virality and discoverability
Separation of content, presentation, and logic, and how that allows users to extend and modify existing applications
On-demand code delivery, and how that makes getting your applications into the hands of your users completely frictionless
Responsive design, and how that lets Web applications respond to their environments
How browsers put users before businesses and developers, and what that means for your applications
How the Web’s open and forgiving nature makes it the most democratic platform in existence
What the Web can’t (or won’t!) do, and why

By understanding why and how developing for the Web is different, we can learn how to build applications that are not only good citizens of the Web, but also attract and retain users in large numbers.

Speaker bio #

Ankur Sethi leads the Web Engineering team at Uncommon in Bangalore. He builds applications with JavaScript, TypeScript, and (sometimes) Rust. He has terrible taste in music, which he inflicts on unsuspecting strangers if handed the AUX cord at parties.

Links #

My website and blog: https://ankursethi.in
My previous talk at JSFoo 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8uMg-VwJS8