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Report from the conference Front Trends 2012



The conference was held on April 26-27 in Warsaw, it was the second conference ( Lea Verou on the first conference ) of the series, and according to rumors and success - not the last.

All reports were in English, strictly for 30 minutes, in the same hall, with frequent but short coffee breaks. There were mostly technological reports, but there were no evangelists and sponsorship reports. I really liked the organization of the event, except for the absence of sockets in the hall and a long queue for badges on the first day.
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Conference site , of. the hashtag #FrontTrends , as well as the organizers promised to post videos of the presentations soon (as the information appears, I will definitely update the post).

First day schedule:


The links slides reports and sites of speakers, below my brief notes on the presentations, as well as reports can be read at the office. page (eng)

WEB: PLATFORM OR PILE 'O HACKS?


Alex Russel

Alex talked about the future of web applications, and the possible vector of technology development - why wait while implementing some CSS property when we can invent our own? Perhaps in the future, we will have access to low-level browser technologies, and we will be able to write our own standards with blackjack and divas.

RESPONSIVE REDESIGN: SMASHING MAGAZINE'S CASE-STUDY


Vitaly friedman

Vitaly told about the history of portal redesigns, and how they came to a new responsive design. The main problems of the old design, he noted - the clutter of the interface, poor typography, speed. These problems led to the fact that ~ 40% of users began to view content from the site only through readers and RSS feeds.

A couple of abstracts




WHAT WE DON'T KNOW


Chris Coyier



Basically, Chris retold the latest articles from css-tricks.com - talked about small web services that simplify life for developers ( caniuse.com , css3please , etc.), about different polyfiles, for backward compatibility of new technologies in old browsers, and In short, about preprocessors.

MOBILE SAFARI: BRING YOUR MACHETE


David Desandro

From the interesting, I can only note the property -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch, which allows scrolling on the web, as in native iOS applications. It was also interesting to hear about the features of touch events in iOS applications (see the slides). Otherwise, quite well-known problems with the viewport width, support position: fixed, etc. were affected.

PATTERNS FOR ORGANIZING NON-TRIVIAL JAVASCRIPT APPLICATIONS


Rebecca murphey

BREAKING GOOD HABITS


Harry Roberts

Gary talked about independent blocks and approaches in the layout, allowing to make the design easier to expand and easier to maintain. Avoid fixed widths, use abstract class names, think in blocks, not pages.

HTML5, INTERNET EXPLORER AND WINDOWS 8 - THE MICROSOFT STORY


Daniel Biesiada

The only interesting news from the evangelist from Microsoft - IE10 will be available for Windows 7.

STYLE GUIDE-DRIVEN UI DESIGN WITH SASS


Jina bolton

Gina talked about the usefulness of the style-guides, gave examples of the style-guides that were open on the network (she especially praised the style-guide for the Android application interfaces ), links to which can be found in the presentation slides.

By the end of the report, Gina talked a little about the possibilities of SASS and preprocessors in general.

MIND THE GAP


Julien gachadoat



Julien began with the presentation of one of his projects , created for offline installation, projected on the wall of a building. After that, he continued with stories about interesting JS libraries that allow him to create unusual things using web technologies, and also revealed the idea of ​​one of his upcoming projects.

HTML5 JAVASCRIPT ON CRACK


Kyle simpson

Kyle talked about his experiment, where he tried to use all the most delicious features of HTML5, the source code is attached .

CSS IN THE 4TH DIMENSION: NOT YOUR DADDY'S CSS ANIMATIONS


Lea Verou ( 6 megabyte thematic picture )

In the report, Leah discovered a couple of interesting features of the css transitions and animations, in the presentation you can find live examples. If you are interested in css3 animations, be sure to read through the slides.

For me, it was a discovery to make a delay on the transition not on launch, but only on return .

THE WEB IS THE PLATFORM — MOZILLA'S MOBILE OS


Zbigniew Braniecki

This was one of the non-technology reports, where an evangelist from Mozilla talked about the potential of their new product and called for an open web. In the report, he mentioned that they are now working with other browser vendors, and maybe soon we will see the fruits of their joint collaboration.

FUTURE OF WEB APPLICATIONS, WHERE CLIENT DOESN'T NEED SERVER


Mariusz Nowak

Schedule of the second day:



REFACTORING JAVASCRIPT - BIG BANG THEORY?


Krzysztof Szafranek



A couple of abstracts




HOW BROWSERS WORK INTERNALLY


Tali garsiel

Basically, Rachel retold her (already quite old) article - HOW BROWSERS WORK: BEHIND THE SCENES OF MODERN WEB BROWSERS .

From notes




JAVASCRIPT: THE SUBSETS WE USE


Olov lassus

PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES WITHOUT BREAKING THE WEB


Rachel andrew

Rachel's report was a kind of opposition to Chris Royer's report, in which she rejected Chris's idea of ​​using polyfiles and third-party libraries as much as possible. She urged not to shove a bunch of scripts into the project right away, to solve possible problems, but to solve problems as they appeared, studying specific cases and the need for polyfiles.

It seems to me that Rachel spoke in a very accessible way about the problems of polyfiles, as well as in performance, and in limiting the development of developers. As the video recording of the report will be posted, I strongly advise you to listen to it.

The main theses of the report




10 THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW ABIT HTML


Mathias Bynens

Matthias retold the latest articles from his blog, mainly about the need for quotes in HTML / CSS and about invalid characters in the names of the Java Script variables.

DESIGNING IN THE BROWSER


Divya manian

A participant in the CSS Working Group, and now an engineer at Adobe, spoke about the advantages of prototyping design right in the browser, citing as an example the tools to simplify this approach to design development.

If you also think about prototyping in the browser, it will be useful for you to listen to another report from Ya.Subbotnika - CSS3 in the hands of the designer ( slides ).

ALICE.JS: A LIGHTWEIGHT INDEPENDENT CSS ENGINE


Luca Sale

Luke, an evangelist from Blackberry, talked about the Alice.js library, which allows you to easily animate elements on CSS without bothering with the prefixes and specifics of CSS animations. The library showed examples of work on the Blackberry Playbook (the entire application worked smoothly, without brakes), urging everyone to switch to web technologies, in game and application development.

SAME FLASH DIFFERENT CODE


Alex Giron

DESIGN PROCESSES, NOT INTERFACES


Tiffany conroy

LEARNING TO TEACH


Bartosz szopka

Bartosh urged not to hide his code from other developers and share more experience with the younger generation of developers - if performance is not critical for you, do not minify the code (JS, you can work with HTML and CSS via webkit inspector / firebug), or give links in the comments to working version of files.

WHEN TO NODE?


John schulz

Links to reviews from other conference participants




And some photos



PainStation


In the intervals between the reports, it was possible to play PainStation , as well as a bicycle was played at the end among the winners.



About the conference venue


We arrived in Warsaw a day earlier, we were pleasantly surprised by the good weather, at the time when we had +10/12, in Poland the summer was +20/32.
After the 2nd World War, the city was destroyed, and all the buildings, mostly new, but left a small old town, and cozy pedestrian streets. In general, in Warsaw, I didn’t have much to be bored, many interesting places, many people on the streets.

WiFi was practically in all establishments, with the English people there were no particular problems with the local population, Polish is also quite understandable, especially for Ukrainians. The English menu in all institutions is common, prices are also very pleasant, slightly cheaper than in Riga, and much cheaper than in St. Petersburg and Moscow :)

The conference was held on Thursday and Friday, we decided to stay for the weekend to visit Krakow. If you are going to go to Front Trends, be sure to try to leave time to visit Krakow! Very good atmosphere, beautiful old town. Krakow is like a little Prague.

PS


In the near future I plan to be on St. Petersburg web standards, maybe even at CSSSummit and Fronteers , so stay tuned!

UPD


Front-trends have released a couple of official conference videos.





UPD 10/23/12


The organizers of the Front-Trends gradually spread records of reports from the conference. And judging by this tweet , in 2013 there will be a more epic event, be sure to go!

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143382/

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