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Panel: Cameron Adams, Peter-Paul Koch (PPK), Stuart Langridge, Dan Webb, and Simon Willison – JavaScript libraries: friend or foe?
This JavaScript experts panel discussed some advantages and drawbacks in the field of JavaScript libraries, such as the Dojo toolkit or the Yahoo User Interface Library. These libraries offer a common programming interface for JavaScript and especially AJAX, to overcome cross-browser issues and can thus greatly increase productivity. One of the main problems pointed out by PPK was the size of these libraries, which can vary widely from 5kB to more than 100kB – a problem that is especially important on mobile devices.
The panel ended with a collection of things that make libraries desirable. Amongst those were: Read the rest of this entry »

I was in London from June 15th to 16th to attend the @media conference 2006. @media basically is a web design conference (”Europe’s foremost professional web design conference”), so most of the talks and panels were less technical and focussed mainly on design issues. However, some speakers also talked about things like DOM scripting or bug fixing, so there was some technological input as well.

Since we try to keep the focus on (mobile) devices here, let’s look at the things that were said at @media that are relevant to us: Read the rest of this entry »