3. The normal flow is this:
★ I show you incredible stuff! (in a special browser build with all kind of flags turned on)
★ You try it out later.
★ It doesn’t work for you.
★ You are behind in fixing that layout glitch in IE8 your boss
so wants you to fix.
★ I am awesome, you are frustrated.
4. Something is broken...
There seems to be a disconnect between the “web development and
design scene” and both the market we are working for and the
companies building the tools we use.
5. we <3 abstractions!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pa1nt/2395397976/
We seem to be obsessed with abstractions. Instead of using ideas
like for example vendor prefixes in browsers we write a library to not
have to care about them. This leads to a lot of problems with
experimental implementations becoming necessary features and new
developers learning abstractions instead of the core technologies.
6. Everybody is a creator:
Last year: 37 new
microlibraries and 10 new
“innovative CSS work
frameworks”
We all want to be creators and build a thing that makes it easier for
others to code. We don’t even follow up any longer if they are used or
not, the concept of having built them makes us already feel great.
7. “This photo was taken by photographer Jack Bradley and depicts the exact moment this boy, Harold Whittles,
hears for the very first time ever.The doctor treating him has just placed an earpiece in his left ear.
Date unknown. “
I think we have forgotten a bit about the wonder of hearing and
learning and are too focused on building what brings change. We
have two ears but one mouth and most of the time our speaking
to listening ratio does not reflect that.
8. At Mozilla we have a lot of programs to turn people into webmakers and it is
amazing to see how excited kids are doing their first few web things using
Mozilla Thimble.
9. Unless someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.
On the flight over here I watched the Lorax based on the book by
Dr. Seuss and I loved it - especially this quote. I actually got so inspired,
that I wrote the rest of this presentation in the style of Dr. Seuss. That
way all of you in the audience who have kids can read to them and
learn about the future of the web at the same time.
10. http://codepo8.github.com/seussweb/
I uploaded the whole “poem” to github, where you can find it and use it -
be my guest. There are a lot of links in there for you to follow and read
at your own leisure.
45. Thanks!
Christian Heilmann
@codepo8
Crystal Beasley
@skinny
So well done for reading and listening,
and going great lengths,
that's all we got time for,
so good-bye and thanks!