Intro

A Tale of Many Cities

Intro

Actors, tech, and philosophies are what influence web development. Let's look a little at each

Actors

Basically we have:

  • Browsers - Competing and cooperating to gradually improve experiences through enhancements to features, performance, and security.

  • Standards Bodies and Lobbyists

  • Identity Devs

  • Frontier Devs

  • Everyone else who just want a good job and use whatever fits project goals, scope, and gets the job done.

"The assets we serve to users will be the aggressively-optimized output of sophisticated build tools. The trend started by minifiers like UglifyJS and continued by transpilers like Babel will only accelerate...This is a loss in some ways, but is a huge win for users, particularly in emerging markets...Our job now is figuring out how to adapt the ideas of performance native code while preserving what makes the web great." -- Tom Dale, "Compilers are the New Frameworks"

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