IN EPISODE No. 95 of The Big Web Show (“everything web that matters”), I interview Jake Archibald of Google Chrome about upcoming web caching standards, how the network connection is merely a layer of progressive enhancement and why you should build your app offline, communicating with non-developers, accessibility standards at BBC and The Guardian, the forking of Webkit, and why the much-linked article “Why Mobile Web Apps are Slow” proves no such thing.
Jake Archibald is a Developer Advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools. Prior to Google, Jake worked on lanyrd.com/mobile/, using modern web standards and good old hackery to work smoothly on ancient devices, while adding enhancements to newer devices such as offline support.
Jake also spent 4 years working at the BBC writing low level JavaScript that catered to their strict accessibility and browser support requirements. He authored and maintained the corporation’s Standards and Guidelines on JavaScript, and sat on their working groups for accessibility, markup, and download performance.
URLS
- jakearchibald.com
- @jaffathecake
- Jake Archibald on Github
- Jake Archibald on Google Plus
- Jake Archibald
- Why Mobile Web Apps Are Slow
- Web Platform Daily
- Feedly RSS Reader
- Daily Nerd
- jQuery requstAnimationFrame
- Navigation Controller (Github)
- Application Cache is a Douchebag (A List Apart)
Note
The Big Web Show will be on hiatus during August. See you in September!
