London JS - Create the web
Posted on 13 November 2012 by Steve Rydz
Last night I attended London JS — Create the web, which was hosted at Forward Technology.
The first talk was by Jack Franklin and was called Optimising JavaScript.
It was only a short talk but Jack presented some interesting finds regarding how to do common things with JavaScript quickly. To see some examples of this go checkout his slides.
The second talk was more of a presentation on some of Adobes new products by Michael Chaize and Terrance Ryan.
It really looks like Adobe have stepped up their game and are now developing more web focused tools. They seem to be doing a lot with animation, but from the sound of their laptop fans I’m not sure the world is ready for that yet.
The two tools that impressed me were the yet-to-be-released Reflow and Brackets.
Reflow is a responsive design application which allows you to set breakpoints and rearrange the design accordingly. Effectively you are editing DOM elements rather than Photoshop layers. I really think a tool like this will help get designers thinking responsively, causing us developers a few less headaches in the process.
Brackets is an open source HTML, CSS and JavaScript editor. It has been designed to be lightweight, front-end focused and extensible. It is built entirely in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and therefore easy to customise and extend with your own plugins. One feature I particularly liked was the ability to select an element from a HTML file and edit the CSS properties for that element without opening another file.
Unfortunately I had to leave before Sam Duttons WebRTC talk so I can’t say anything about that.
I did come away with a free foldable me which I did put together late last night but have yet to photograph.