Web Standards and Interoperability

Chris Heilmann @codepo8
I love the web! 😍🕸
HTML5 and web standards 😄
Internet Explorer 🎉💩
Internet Explorer 11 😐
Strict Standards Compliance 📚
Innovation in browsers 💡
Libraries patching issues 🤕
Microsoft Edge
- Evergreen browser
- Same across all form factors
- Standards compliant
- Comparable with other browsers
User Agent Sniffing 💩
Experimental features using prefixes 🔥
Outdated libraries 🚧
Broken implementations becoming "de facto standards" 🙄
Microsoft Edge (forgiving)
- Evergreen browser
- Same across all form factors
- Standards compliant
- Compatible with other browsers on standards and "de-facto standards"
Lots of forgotten standards are now usable 💪caniuse.com
JavaScript => ES6 🤘ecma-international.org/ecma-262/6.0
Encouraging ES6 support 👍kangax.github.io/compat-table/es6
Transpilers for old environments 👻 babeljs.io

"use strict";

(function (JavaScript) {
  return ES6;
});

Supersets for superpowers 🍄typescriptlang.org
In-Browser developer tools 👀
Kick-ass editors and debuggers 👞🐴code.visualstudio.com
Remote debugging services and tools 📱vorlonjs.com
Open Communication channels
- status.modern.ie
- remote.modern.ie
- uservoice.modern.ie
- @msedgedev
Participation very welcome! 🎤
Assume the future is bright!
- Offline Web Solutions
- Device Capability Access
- Componentisation/Modularisation
- Simplification due to convenience methods and more capable browsers
Stop thinking in browsers, and start thinking in opportunities 🏅
Let's clean up this mess to make way for the future 🚿
Quick scan of simple issues to fix 🔎dev.modern.ie/tools/staticscan
THANKS! 🎉

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