Notes from Edge Conference 2013

A Guardian developer's notes and highlights from this month's Edge Conference, a web technology event in London

Patrick Hamann

Published on Friday, 1 March 2013


EdgeConf: "Building out from the edge of web technology"
EdgeConf: "Building out from the edge of web technology" Photograph: guardian.co.uk

I attended EdgeConf on Saturday and wrote some up notes from the sessions included below. The conference was touted as “a new kind of one-day conference on advanced web technologies for developers and browser vendors” and did not disappoint.

The conference had a slightly different format than most – which I was dubious about at first – but it worked incredibly well: sessions were on a range of client-side topics with 10 minute introduction slides, which was followed up by a moderated panel with open questions from the crowd using an open Google Moderator page – audience participation was actively encouraged.

The conference was held at Facebook’s swanky new London offices and featured a strong representation from Google, Mozilla and Facebook themselves, which led to some very interesting discussions.

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