Bruce Lawson Opera Indonesia
- 1. Opera Software The best browsing experience on any device The best Internet experience on any device
- 3. Opera is a Web Browser
- 4. Opera's vision is to provide the best Internet experience on any device
- 5. Why do Web Standards matter? The most important program on your computer is your Web Browser.
- 7. When Standards go BAD!
- 8. What are Web Standards? Standards are rules and methodologies that make building things easier. And the results better.
- 9. Open vs Closed Standards Open Standards are made by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in public, through debate, discussion leading to agreement. Closed Standards are made by a single company, in secret, according to the business needs of that company.
- 10. Dangers of a closed-standard culture South Korea is a nation that at the forefront of technology, an early adopter of ecommerce, leading the world in 3G mobile adoption, in wireless broadband, in wired broadband adoption, as well as in citizen-driven media. But the Web is in hands of a single corporation. http://kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s
- 11. Advantages of Open Standards The Web works everywhere - The Web is the platform ● Good standards help developers: validate; separate content and presentation - means specialisation and maintainability. ● Good standards help site owners: more maintainability; smaller pages; better SEO (webometrics) ● Good standards help site end-users: light-weight; findable; interoperable; more likely accessible ● Write once, work everywhere (you can't test every device!)
- 12. Case study - Legal and General British based financial services company that provides life, health and other insurance, as well as pensions and investments. Its shares trade on the London Stock Exchange as part of the FTSE 100 Index. Major markets include U.K., France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States. www.landg.com
- 13. Legal and General's re-design ● 30% increase in natural search-engine traffic ● 75% reduction in time for page to load ● Browser-compatibility (no complaints since), accessible to mobile devices ● Time to manage content “reduced from five days to 0.5 days per job” ● Savings of £200K annually on site maintenance ● 90% increase in life insurance sales online ● 100% return on investment in less than 12 months. www.brucelawson.co.uk/pas78
- 14. Open Web technologies Using the right tool for the right job – see Web Standards Curriculum opera.com/wsc
- 15. HTML ● Hypertext Markup Language ● HTML is for information ● HTML describes the meaning of your information ● Presentation (fonts, colours, layout, decoration) is not meaning – it's style ● HTML is just text, so it's light and any device can consume it: screen readers, braille displays, in-car voice browsers, old mobile phones, search engines
- 16. Cascading stylesheets for presentation CSS provides a way to abstract styles from meaning. Include it in the head and style the whole site: table {width:500px; border:1px solid white;} th {background-color:blue; color:white; text- align:center;} tr {background-color:white; color:black;} tr:nth-child(even) {background-color:#66FFCC;}
- 17. JavaScript for behaviour Using principles of unobtrusive JavaScript, I'll add Stuart Langridge's Sorttable script (kryogenix.org): <script src="sorttable.js"></script> <table class="sortable"> Check out the sortable table
- 18. <canvas> Canvas is an immediate graphics mode for modern browsers. Placeholder for scripted images/ animations. <canvas>Fallback content</canvas> Tutorials (write your own games!) http://dev.opera.com Search for “canvas”
- 19. Evolution of HTML: monkey on left becomes human in 4 stages
- 20. th Evolution of HTML: 5 monkey (HTML5) is human but dressed in pimp clothing
- 21. HTML5 “... extending the language to better support Web applications, since that is one of the directions the Web is going in and is one of the areas least well served by HTML so far. This puts HTML in direct competition with other technologies intended for applications deployed over the Web, in particular Flash and Silverlight.”
- 22. HTML5 goodies ● Drag and drop ● Cross-window, Cross-domain messaging ● Web workers ● Adding toolbars <menu>, <command> ● WebStorage ● Geolocation ● Register protocol handler, content type handlers ● Server-sent events <eventsource>
- 23. What does this code do? <object width="425" height="344"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.example.com/v/LtfQg4KkR88&hl=en &fs=1"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param> <embed src="http://www.example.com/v/LtfQg4KkR88&hl=en&f s=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed> </object>
- 24. Video (future) <video src="video.ogv" <a href="video.ogv">Download movie</a> </video>
- 25. Handphone/ devices development 1 Write simple content and use a simple design. KISS Photo credit: Mild Mannered Photographer, http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexerde/2433520958/
- 26. Handphone/ devices development 2 Define size of images in your HTML, use alt text ● <img height=”200” width=”100” alt=”company logo”> ● Images take a long time to load, so tell the browser to leave a space for them ● If you don't, when the image finally loads, the browser will redraw the page to fit the image in ● Your users will be angry if the content they were reading scrolls off the screen to make space for images ● Redrawing the screen wastes processor time (and battery life)
- 27. Handphone/ devices development 3 Put your JavaScript at the bottom of your page if possible ● Browsers wait for JS to load. If they're at the top, rendering pauses. ● If your JS is at the bottom of the page, the user can read the content etc while she is waiting to interact with the page.
- 28. Handphone/ devices development 4 Minimise HTTP requests ● The slowest part of rendering your pages on handphones is requesting a file (JS/ CSS/ image) over the network ● Combine JS into one file. Same with CSS. ● Use CSS sprites to combine decorative images ● Consider encoding images directly in your page as data URLs ● Use SVG or <canvas> for images
- 29. Handphone/ devices development 5 Use CSS Media Queries to reformat your page for different devices @media all and (min-width: 480px) and (max-width: 800px) {your CSS here} @media all and (min-width: 400px) and (max-width: 480px) {other CSS here}
- 30. The Standards-based workflow ● Know and understand your tool set. ● Use the right tools (HTML, CSS, JS, Media Queries). ● Validate your code (validator.w3.org, JS Lint). ● Use Opera Dragonfly and debug menu to hunt down errors and kill them, or just see what's going on. ● Check your work regularly in Opera desktop at different screen widths, Opera Mini and other browsers. ● This is an iterative cycle. It will save time.
- 31. Why you need to know Open Standards ● oppose dominance by one corporation and so promote choice ● promote inclusion (slower networks, older computers, people with disabilities) ● lower development cost - work smarter, not cheaper ● These will be hot skills in a few months' time: get them now!
- 32. Terima Kasih [email protected], www.opera.com/developer www.brucelawson.co.uk, twitter.com/brucel www.html5doctor.com