![“While I am personally opposed to
all use of JavaScript, I understand
that JavaScript can do some things
that you can't do with normal HTML…
Just remember, if Amazon can [do
without JavaScript], so can you.”
– “Anti-JavaScript FAQ”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/k88hudsonjsconf-150527152747-lva1-app6892/85/Build-the-mobile-web-you-want-19-320.jpg)
![“Blindly accepting a high level of
security risk on the web [by
enabling JavaScript] is as shaky as
a ride on the Canadian space
shuttle (made of birch bark and
pine gum)”
– “Stupid JavaScript Security Tricks”](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/k88hudsonjsconf-150527152747-lva1-app6892/85/Build-the-mobile-web-you-want-21-320.jpg)
Build the mobile web you want
- 1. Build the mobile web you want @k88hudson
- 5. – browser vendors We’re working on it
- 6. Native Web ok pretty bad terrible, working on it meh ok sometimes
- 7. What do we do?
- 8. “I feel like it’s time to revisit the web vs. native debate, and concede defeat — or, at least, concede that the web cannot, and should not, compete with native when it comes to complex, app-like structures.”
- 9. “Conceding defeat will force us to rethink the web’s purpose and unique strengths — and that’s long overdue.”
- 10. This is a totally reasonable, rational argument
- 11. 2004
- 12. Kazaa Wallpapers
- 16. An app… in JavaScript?!
- 17. When I decided to write the Gmail interface in Javascript, pretty much everyone who knew anything about Javascript or web browsers told me that it was a bad idea. It had been tried in the past, and always ended in disaster. – Paul Buchheit, lead developer of Gmail in 2004
- 19. “While I am personally opposed to all use of JavaScript, I understand that JavaScript can do some things that you can't do with normal HTML… Just remember, if Amazon can [do without JavaScript], so can you.” – “Anti-JavaScript FAQ”
- 20. “A lot of designers think it’s their god-given right to annoy the hell out of visitors with bulky Javascript effects, so turning off Javascript is almost a requirement to visit some websites.” – “Javascript is Evil”
- 21. “Blindly accepting a high level of security risk on the web [by enabling JavaScript] is as shaky as a ride on the Canadian space shuttle (made of birch bark and pine gum)” – “Stupid JavaScript Security Tricks”
- 22. “The XML HTTP thing”
- 23. “The XML HTTP thing”
- 24. You are here because of a massive hack
- 26. Now is the time to hack
- 27. The three levels of hack
- 28. Test new features before their time The First Level of Hack
- 29. Service workers!! (Coming to FF in fall 2015)
- 31. (This is not controversial stuff)
- 32. Build new abstractions The Second Level of Hack
- 36. Blow sh*t up The Third Level of Hack
- 37. What if you could hack your user agent?
- 39. “Hybrid apps”
- 41. Let’s build our own
- 44. • Poor offline experience • Memory leaks in long-lived processes • UI perf • Android <4.4
- 46. Android Activity
- 50. What about Android 4.2, 4.0, ..?
- 54. Expose a custom Java interface to Javascript
- 55. Expose a custom Java interface to Javascript MainActivity.java index.js
- 57. App.java
- 58. Similar to server side routing, but we get native Android transitions
- 60. Web: React view Android: Router, SharedPreferences
- 67. What else? • Bind to Android’s offline network caching utilities • Hook into native gestures • Device/OS integration • ???
- 68. Will it work? Who knows…
- 69. You get to build the web you want
- 71. is finding adequate solutions to problems that matter, in a way that someone in the future can understand and improve on. Really good engineering
- 72. Hack the good hack, my friends
- 73. @k88hudson