1. Chrome is a new web browser introduced by Google, but it is based on the existing WebKit browser engine that Safari also uses. This provides standards support but Chrome aims to improve JavaScript performance.
2. JavaScript capabilities in browsers are advancing and allowing rich applications through features like canvas without plugins. JavaScript engine performance is important for this.
3. The future of the web is mobile access, as most new users will experience the web through phones first. How applications are designed for small screens will be crucial to expanding web usage globally.
HTML5 - New UI Library for Games, Chad Austin, IMVUChad Austin
At GDC 2011, IMVU presented its decision to use HTML for its downloadable client's UI. These slides are annotated with the contents of our presentation.
WAM: An embedded web runtime history for LG webOS and Automotive Grade LinuxIgalia
WAM is the web runtime used in LG webOS (both for its products and the Open
Source Edition), and has been adopted by Automotive Grade Linux. It is built on
top of Chromium web engine and its Ozone Wayland backend.
In this presentation I will showcase its main features, and talk about its
history, from HP/Palm devices, through LG TV and its Raspberry PI Open Source
Edition, to end with its adoption in AGL.
WAM, also known as WebAppManager, or Web Application Manager, is a system
service providing web runtime capabilities in LG webOS and AGL platforms.
Its goals are:
* Performance through reuse of resources among web applications.
* Provide a native-like experience to applications based on the Web Platform
standards.
It has been a central part of LG webOS in all its flavours, including LG webOS
Open Source Edition. As such, it provides a great example of how to integrate
the web experience in a Linux system, providing graphics integration through
Wayland protocol.
It will be a history of web engines. From QtWebKit, to QtWebEngine, to a custom
embedding API directly on top of Chromium.
This is also going to be a history of the flexibility of the platform, as it
was possible to integrate it not only on webOS, but also in the different
releases of Automotive Grade Linux, even after different architecture rewrites.
This presentation will highlight the strong points that make WAM specially
flexible for integrating in different Linux platforms.
A retrospective of the main milestones of WAM in last decade. But also a look
into its future.
(c) FOSDEM 2023
4 & 5 February 2023
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/wam_runtime/
The latest midpoint of Summer’17 collection of news from JavaScript universe.
Browser news:
Chrome 59 update
Chrome 60 Beta
Safari Technology Preview 32
WebKit Support for WebAssembly
Firefox 54
Misc:
Building the Web of Things
Node.js Will Overtake Java Within a Year: Analysis
New releases:
React v15.6.0
New libs:
Data-Pixels
Moon
vx
SmartPhoto
Embedo
Microtip
Prettier
Tinytime
Moon.js
Birdview.js
Timeline.js
The web was rapidly developing into a full-stack computing platform starting in 1993 with the introduction of online apps using CGI scripts. In 1994, companies like Yahoo started utilizing Perl code to construct dynamic webpages, and in 1995 client-side interactivity was introduced with the introduction of JavaScript by Netscape. Simultaneously, studies were conducted on the web's presentation side, which led to the development of web design.
Google’s Internal Memo Leaked "JavaScript is Flawed, Won't Work, and Can't Be...Stephane Beladaci
Javascript has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed merely by evolving the language. Building delightful applications on the web today is far too difficult. The cyclone of innovation is increasingly moving off the web onto iOS and other closed platforms. Javascript has been a part of the web platform since its infancy, but the web has begun to outgrown it. Complex web apps--the kind that Google specializes in--are struggling against the platform and working with a language that cannot be tooled and has inherent performance problems. Even smaller-scale apps written by hobbyist developers have to navigate a confusing labyrinth of frameworks and incompatible design patterns. Javascript as it exists today will likely not be a viable solution long-term. Something must change.
Talk held on a Smashing Magazine Meetup February, 27th 2012 in Frankfurt (Germany) about current problems with developers, designers and clients in front-end development
Web development tools have gone through a series of major changes than how they used to be. For starters, we no longer need computers the size of refrigerators to make introductory web runners.
Thanks to the power of pall computing (and a bevy of great SaaS businesses), we frequently do not indeed need a necessary computer at all. From the most introductory web cyber-surfer, you can do everything from edit query to sluice the rearmost videotape games.
HTML5 - New UI Library for Games, Chad Austin, IMVUChad Austin
At GDC 2011, IMVU presented its decision to use HTML for its downloadable client's UI. These slides are annotated with the contents of our presentation.
WAM: An embedded web runtime history for LG webOS and Automotive Grade LinuxIgalia
WAM is the web runtime used in LG webOS (both for its products and the Open
Source Edition), and has been adopted by Automotive Grade Linux. It is built on
top of Chromium web engine and its Ozone Wayland backend.
In this presentation I will showcase its main features, and talk about its
history, from HP/Palm devices, through LG TV and its Raspberry PI Open Source
Edition, to end with its adoption in AGL.
WAM, also known as WebAppManager, or Web Application Manager, is a system
service providing web runtime capabilities in LG webOS and AGL platforms.
Its goals are:
* Performance through reuse of resources among web applications.
* Provide a native-like experience to applications based on the Web Platform
standards.
It has been a central part of LG webOS in all its flavours, including LG webOS
Open Source Edition. As such, it provides a great example of how to integrate
the web experience in a Linux system, providing graphics integration through
Wayland protocol.
It will be a history of web engines. From QtWebKit, to QtWebEngine, to a custom
embedding API directly on top of Chromium.
This is also going to be a history of the flexibility of the platform, as it
was possible to integrate it not only on webOS, but also in the different
releases of Automotive Grade Linux, even after different architecture rewrites.
This presentation will highlight the strong points that make WAM specially
flexible for integrating in different Linux platforms.
A retrospective of the main milestones of WAM in last decade. But also a look
into its future.
(c) FOSDEM 2023
4 & 5 February 2023
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/wam_runtime/
The latest midpoint of Summer’17 collection of news from JavaScript universe.
Browser news:
Chrome 59 update
Chrome 60 Beta
Safari Technology Preview 32
WebKit Support for WebAssembly
Firefox 54
Misc:
Building the Web of Things
Node.js Will Overtake Java Within a Year: Analysis
New releases:
React v15.6.0
New libs:
Data-Pixels
Moon
vx
SmartPhoto
Embedo
Microtip
Prettier
Tinytime
Moon.js
Birdview.js
Timeline.js
The web was rapidly developing into a full-stack computing platform starting in 1993 with the introduction of online apps using CGI scripts. In 1994, companies like Yahoo started utilizing Perl code to construct dynamic webpages, and in 1995 client-side interactivity was introduced with the introduction of JavaScript by Netscape. Simultaneously, studies were conducted on the web's presentation side, which led to the development of web design.
Google’s Internal Memo Leaked "JavaScript is Flawed, Won't Work, and Can't Be...Stephane Beladaci
Javascript has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed merely by evolving the language. Building delightful applications on the web today is far too difficult. The cyclone of innovation is increasingly moving off the web onto iOS and other closed platforms. Javascript has been a part of the web platform since its infancy, but the web has begun to outgrown it. Complex web apps--the kind that Google specializes in--are struggling against the platform and working with a language that cannot be tooled and has inherent performance problems. Even smaller-scale apps written by hobbyist developers have to navigate a confusing labyrinth of frameworks and incompatible design patterns. Javascript as it exists today will likely not be a viable solution long-term. Something must change.
Talk held on a Smashing Magazine Meetup February, 27th 2012 in Frankfurt (Germany) about current problems with developers, designers and clients in front-end development
Web development tools have gone through a series of major changes than how they used to be. For starters, we no longer need computers the size of refrigerators to make introductory web runners.
Thanks to the power of pall computing (and a bevy of great SaaS businesses), we frequently do not indeed need a necessary computer at all. From the most introductory web cyber-surfer, you can do everything from edit query to sluice the rearmost videotape games.
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Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
3. 3
...but there’s an important thing to realize: Scott McCloud and the Googleplex notwithstanding, this
new browser isn’t actually a new browser. It’s an existing browser...
4. 4
Safari. Chrome is a WebKit browser, so in terms of rendering and standards support and all the
things we’re used to caring about, it’s Safari.
(There’s a lot more to it than just WebKit, but I’ll get back to that later.)
It’s an interesting choice: Gecko would seem to be a more natural cross-platform choice. I suspect
the reason is Mobile Safari and the work being done by the WebKit team to advance standards
support.
Speaking of standards support, Internet Explorer...
5. 5
...is passing the Acid 2 test in IE8 internal builds.
Meantime, Opera and WebKit ran a very close horse race earlier this year to pass...
6. 6
...Acid 3. I have some concerns over how Acid 3 was assembled and the challenge met, but it’s still
an interesting benchmark.
Standards support is advancing-- slowly, but still advancing. There’s much slower advancement in
the realm of standards creation, as was thrown into sharp relief recently when Ian Hickson gave an
interview where he said HTML5 would be finally wrapped up in...
7. 2022?!
7
Seriously.
But what he was really saying was that the absolute last word would be written on HTML5 by then,
NOT that it would be 2022 before we could use HTML5. In fact, the point at which HTML5 can be
used is more like...
8. 2008
8
...right now. There are already features of HTML5 present in browsers. For example...
9. 9
...canvas. Here we see two demos of vector graphics being rendered via canvas, which was first
introduced a couple of years ago by the WebKit team and quickly adopted by Gecko and Opera.
With canvas you can do some pretty cute stuff...
10. 10
...like little drawing tools, for one. This is being done by drawing shapes on the canvas through
some fairly simple declarative methods through JavaScript.
Aw, ears.
It’s certainly possible to go beyond early 21st-century recreations of the core features of MacPaint,
of course. For example...
11. 11
...you can do fairly decent “3D” effects; here I’m wandering through a small map. This is all my
input, not a prescripted path. Notice also the “radar” in the corner there.
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And then there’s typeface.js, the recent canvas hack to support arbitrary fonts, much the same way
sIFR did with Flash. ...and both of which are replacements for @font-face and other font-
downloading mechanisms that never took hold.
The real point being this is all being done natively in the browser, accomplished with JavaScript and
canvas. No plugins, just built-in features.
Because all this is dependent on JavaScript, which is really reaching maturity as a programming
language, then it’s obviously important to have the best JS performance possible. And currently
leading the pack is...
17. 17
So what’s becoming important is the engine inside the browser-- the guts of the user agent, which
directly impacts the user experience, especially as the use of JavaScript increases (thanks to AJAX,
for example).
Engines actually have a long and storied history in supporting JS libraries.
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IE7 is one of the earliest libraries, transparently extending IE6’s CSS and XHTML support via
JavaScript.
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Sizzle is apparently similar to IE7 in its transparency; focused on extending selector support for ALL
browsers to the furthest corners of CSS3.
20. 20
Sizzle is an outgrowth of jQuery.
This is a very popular framework for JS-based application development.
21. 21
Here’s typeface.js again, with examples of its three available fonts (you can convert fonts you own
into typeface files).
22. 22
Bluff can be used to add very simple graphing to browsers.
23. 23
Raphael is more of a generic vector-drawing library, again done with JS.
24. 24
North 280 created 280 Slides, which is liek Keynote except it’s entirely web-based.
And to do this, they created Objective-J, where they actually recreated large chunks of Objective-C
in JavaScript. Think about that.
25. 25
In a like vein, there’s also processing.js, a port of the programming language Processing to JS.
(Processing is very popular with data artists.)
This all summarizes what may be the most important trend on the web right now, which is the
extension of browser capabilities using JavaScript and standards support as the base.
They’re like plugins, except there’s nothing to install.
These extensions, in turn, depend on (and are enabled by) the advances in browser’s JavaScript
engines.
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Which brings us back to Chrome.
Chrome uses WebKit, it’s true, but they’ve done a lot to rework the way JavaScript is handled, and
the way individual browser sessions are structured in memory. Their stated intent is to enhance JS
and browser instances so that web-application needs are far better supported.
They’re doing what the other browser teams are doing in their JS improvement efforts, but in a
somewhat different way. But the different ways may well converge and give us another giant leap in
JS performance.
This isn’t actually new to Chrome. They’re just making a bigger deal of it.
Furthermore, the name “Chrome” is interesting because it implies that the browser is really just a
front end to something else-- which is true.
And in Chrome’s case, the web as we know it is just one “something else”. There’s room for other
stuff in there. RIA environments like Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Air could live side by side with
the Web environment (WebKit). And they could put more than one web environment in there.
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It will be interesting to see how Android, which shipped recently, progresses.
28. 28
...especially as compared to the iPhone
There is a great deal to be discovered in terms of the best way to handle mobile web and
application experiences, and this is absolutely crucial because the next expansion of web usage is
not on the desktop, but in the handset...
29. 29
...not just for what we might think of as the usual “developed world” mobile user, but the billions of
people who will have their first and possibly only web experience in a mobile device.
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This is why Tim Berners-Lee recently announced the creation of the W3F, whose goal is to advance
web availability (web accessibility) to everyone.
In many ways this is the first step toward the culmination of TBL’s original vision, which was to have
information and communication accessible to everyone, everywhere, no matter what device they
use to reach it and each other.
So as I see it the state of the web is continued advancement, both technical and social, and that’s
as it should be, because this is a medium whose very essence is change.
And while change can be good or bad, it is constant, so any medium which embraces change will
always be at an advantage.
31. THE STATE OF THE WEB
2008
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Thank you very much for your time and attention.