Enterprise Mobile Web with Chris Love
Carl and Richard talk to Chris Love about building mobile web apps for the enterprise. The conversation starts out with a reference to a comment made on a previous show about the problems with web apps not being built well enough for your device - that they feel too webby. And Chris agrees - it's very challenging to build a web app that feels great on a mobile device. So what's the problem? Chris digs deep into what it takes to make web pages render fast and clean on phones and the biggest bugbear of them all - building a great, compatible touch interface for a web app on a mobile device.
Guests:
Chris Love
Chris Love is a front-end developer for people and companies who are lost in the sea of modern web and user experience standards. He has a quarter century of web development experience, and has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In recent years, he immersed himself in responsive web design, single-page web applications and web performance optimization.
He applies these interests to run a small web consulting company, Love2Dev, that focuses on user-first web applications that operate on all device classes and usage contexts. Love2Dev offers web development and analysis to help companies engage end users and operate more efficiently.
Chris authored 3 web development books including, High Performance Single Page Web Applications, http://amzn.to/1b0twcm. He is a Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider and Edge User Agent. Chris regularly speaks at user groups, code camps and developer conferences. He blogs at http://love2dev.com
Links:
- Must Adapt or Die http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2014/01/03/why-mobile-in-the-enterprise-must-adapt-or-die/
- Steve Souders Web Performance Site http://stevesouders.com/
- DeepTissue.js http://deeptissuejs.com/
- Google Drops Pointer Events http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/08/google-to-drop-microsoft-designed-touch-web-spec-stick-with-apple-tech/
- Mobile Safari the New IE6 http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/08/with-mobile-safari-as-the-new-ie6-microsoft-modifies-windows-phone/