The document discusses the capabilities of the web and how it can be used as a development platform. It notes that the web can now support graphics, animation, location services, device orientation, real-time 3D, camera control, messaging and more. The web allows for cross-platform development, open source work, cloud deployment and easy updating and sharing of content without separate apps. While JavaScript performance was once an issue, tools now exist like PhoneGap that allow hybrid development for high performance while keeping an HTML5-first approach.

1. THE WEB EATS
EVERYTHING IN
ITS PATH
TONY PARISI
DECEMBER, 2014

2. ABOUT ME
CREDS
Co-creator, VRML and X3D
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CONTACT
tony@vizi.gl
skype: auradeluxe
http://twitter.com/auradeluxe
http://www.tonyparisi.com/
http://www.learningwebgl.com/
GET THE BOOKS!
WebGL: Up and Running
http://www.amazon.com/dp/144932357X
Programming 3D Applications with HTML and WebGL
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Applications-HTML5-WebGL-Visualization/
dp/1449362966
MEETUPS
http://www.meetup.com/WebGL-Developers-Meetup/
http://www.meetup.com/Web-VR/
BOOK CODE
https://github.com/tparisi/WebGLBook
https://github.com/tparisi/Programming3DApplications
GET GLAM
http://www.glamjs.org/
https://github.com/tparisi/glam/
WORK
http://www.vizi.gl/

3. A WILD WORLD OF
DEVELOPMENT
image:
http://www.arvindsaba.blogspot.com/
+ =
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4. … AND ONE
PLATFORM TO
RULE THEM
ALL…
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5. THEY SAID IT COULDN’T BE
DONE…
 GRAPHICS
 ANIMATION
 LOCATION
SERVICES
 DEVICE
ORIENTATION
 REAL-TIME 3D
 CAMERA
CONTROL
 REAL-TIME
MESSAGING
 VIRTUAL
REALITY
 IOT… ?
 WEARABLES
… ?
THEY WERE WRONG.
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6. REASONS TO LOVE THE
WEB
 INSTANT PUBLISHING
 INSTANT ACCESS TO INFORMATION
 NO TOLLS
 NOBODY CONTROLS IT
 CULTURE OF COLLABORATION
 VIEW SOURCE
image: Mark Surman
http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/happybirthday/
…THE WEB WILL NEVER CLOSE UP SHOP.
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7. THE THREE D’S OF THE
WEB
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 DEVELOPMENT
 CROSS-PLATFORM
 VENDOR-NEUTRAL
 OPEN SOURCE
 DEPLOYMENT
 CLOUD
 PUSH-BUTTON UPDATE AND PUBLISH
 DISTRIBUTION AND DISCOVERY
 EMBED IN OTHER PAGES
 SHARE WITH A HYPERLINK
 NO APP TO DOWNLOAD

8. WHAT ABOUT
PERFORMANCE?
 JAVASCRIPT CAN HAVE PERFORMANCE ISSUES, BUT TOO
MUCH NOISE HAS BEEN MADE ABOUT JS PERFORMANCE -
WHEN IT WAS REALLY JUST BAD SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
 STILL, SOME THINGS CAN - AND SHOULD – BE IMPLEMENTED IN
NATIVE CODE. BUT IT’S NOT AN EITHER-OR
 HYBRID TOOLS LIKE PHONEGAP, IMPACT EJECTA, COCOONJS
AND CROSSWALK CAN PROVIDE GOOD INTEROPERABILITY AND
AN HTML5-FIRST APPROACH WITHOUT COMPROMISING
PERFORMANCE
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9. REMEMBER:
THE WEB EATS
EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH.
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