The Edge 2013 videos are online

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Edge 2013 was a web development conference that took place on February 9, 2013, in London. Its approach was different from most conferences. Quoting the website:

Edge is a different kind of conference, for developers with experience to share, who want to see and bring improvements to the web platform. Our emphasis is on creating a good environment for productive debate and discussion, rather than presenting the experiences of a single speaker.


Each themed session is an hour long, and starts with a maximum 10 minute talk by an expert in that topic, outlining the current state of the platform in that area. [...] The remainder of the session will be given over to an open but structured discussion, with a professional moderator and a panel of seasoned developers who have in-depth knowledge of the subject. [...]


Session participants will include [...] a notetaker to record the discussion so we can share it on the web later.



Now the videos are online:

  1. Panel 1: Offline

    Keywords:
    App Cache,
    Web Storage,
    Quota API,
    Filesystem API

  2. Panel 2: Network

    Keywords:
    Net-info API,
    Websockets,
    Navigation timing,
    Closure compiler,
    UglifyJS,
    Build tools

  3. Panel 3: Performance

    Keywords:
    Web workers,
    Performance timeline,
    Memory management,
    TreeWalker,
    NodeIterator,
    insertAdjacentHTML,
    createContextualFragment,
    MutationObservers,
    H/W acceleration,
    DOM avoidance,
    Caching patterns,
    Perception

  4. Panel 4: Responsive Layout

    Keywords:
    Seamless IFRAMEs,
    CSS regions,
    CSS3 fonts,
    CSS3 transforms,
    CSS filters,
    FT columnflow,
    Web components,
    Flexbox,
    Media queries

  5. Panel 5: Input

    Keywords:
    FT Fastclick,
    pointer.js,
    Pointer events,
    Speech input API,
    Console browsers,
    Leap motion,
    Kinect hacks

  6. Panel 6: Privileged access

    Keywords:
    Chrome packaged apps,
    Phonegap,
    W3C Widgets,
    Device API access control

  7. Panel 7: Testing and tooling

    Keywords:
    Chrome DevTools,
    Adobe Edge,
    Jenkins,
    Selenium,
    Eggplant,
    Webdriver

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