Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft. You may know him from such books as DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, and HTML5 For Web Designers. Jeremy spends most of his time goofing off on the internet, documenting his time-wasting on adactio.com, where he has been writing for fifteen years.
13 September, 2016
@ Main Stage, 16:30
Web browsers have become so powerful that developers are now treating them as if they were a runtime environment as predictable as any other. But the truth is that we still need to deal with many unknown factors that torpedo our assumptions. The web is where Postel’s Law meets Murphy’s Law, so we can’t treat web development as if it were just another flavour of software. Instead we must work with the grain of the web.