091: With Jamison Dance AND Merrick Christensen

November 12th 2013 Download MP3

This week we were joined by Merrick and Jamison from the Javascript Jabber podcast. They are both super awesome at javascript and very handsome.

Guests

Jamison is a Javascript Developer and works on React Rally.

Merrick is an open web architect at Domo.

10:42 Responsive Web Design: Relying Too Much On Screen Size by LukeW
- Rebuttal by Ethan Marcotte: RESPONSIVE DESIGN, SCREENS, AND SHEARING LAYERS
- PPK: Of viewports and screens, input modes and event handlers
- Counter Rebuttal: On Using Browser Viewports to Understand Screens
14:35 "Offline first is the new Progressive Enhancement" - Zeldman
- Say Hello To Offline First
19:00 I'm in the process of building my first real web app. I've been researching the best way to handle authentication and some have suggested to use pre-written scripts, while others have suggested using a framework. What should I do?
30:33 I would like to lazy load images on my website to speed up performance, however I am concerned about the fallback issues, users without JavaScript will get no images. Will putting the images in a noscript tag solve this problem? What is your view on this?
37:01 Do you know of any awesome web or print resources for learning unit testing in Javascript?
45:52 Everything I know I have learned from "just building websites" but with that style of learning, comes an urgency which often makes me feel like I may not have picked up on some of the finer points. Do you have any advice?