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091: With Jamison Dance AND Merrick Christensen

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This week we were joined by Merrick and Jamison from the Javascript Jabber podcast. They are both super awesome at javascript and very handsome.

We talked about (roughly in order):

News’n’Links’n’Drama:

  • 10:42 Responsive Web Design: Relying Too Much On Screen Size by LukeW

    • Rebuttal by Ethan Marcotte: RESPONSIVE DESIGN, SCREENS, AND SHEARING LAYERS
    • PPK: Of viewports and screens, input modes and event handlers
    • Counter Rebuttal: On Using Browser Viewports to Understand Screens

    • 14:35 “Offline first is the new Progressive Enhancement” – Zeldman

      • Say Hello To Offline First

        • Q & A:

        • 19:00 I’m in the process of building my first real web app. I’ve been researching the best way to handle authentication and some have suggested to use pre-written scripts, while others have suggested using a framework. What should I do?
        • 30:33 I would like to lazy load images on my website to speed up performance, however I am concerned about the fallback issues, users without JavaScript will get no images. Will putting the images in a noscript tag solve this problem? What is your view on this?
        • 37:01 Do you know of any awesome web or print resources for learning unit testing in Javascript?
        • 45:52 Everything I know I have learned from “just building websites” but with that style of learning, comes an urgency which often makes me feel like I may not have picked up on some of the finer points. Do you have any advice?

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                • Show Links:

                • Merrick on Twitter
                • Merrick’s Website
                • Jamison on Twitter
                • Jamison’s Website
                • Javascript Jabber Podcast
                • Effective JS Book
                • Hoodie
                • “Sound Of Silver” by LCD Soundsystem
                • NGConf
                • Web Audio Demos
                • Next Desks
                • Dad Makes 3D Printed Hand For His Son
                  • ...more
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