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Here is my short rating and overview of the Thursday talks of Frontend Conference in Zürich. The ratings are highly subjective.

Mark Otto - Future of Frontend Frameworks

★★★★✩

Call it Github/Twitter biased, but I liked the speaker. I’m always thrilled when ‘designers’ do probably code better than you.

• https://github.com/jonathantneal/MediaClass
• http://www.framerjs.com/
• http://maker.github.io/ratchet/
• http://purecss.io/

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Hans Christian Reinl - Be Friends With Your Designers and Style Guides

★★✩✩✩

• chaotic, nothing new - The talk didn’t seem to me very consistent in topic.
• when did you last use quotes? - Why is one of the main (and mostly nicest) styleguide components always a quote.

• http://frontify.com/

Some own ideas discovered while looking for UI state in CSS:

• http://css-tricks.com/the-checkbox-hack/
• http://podlipensky.com/2013/06/css-only-load-images-on-demand/

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Vitaly Friedman - Responsive Web Design: Clever Tips and Techniques

★★★★★

• Very inspiring talk, cutting edge hacks and workarounds
• Shocking: it’s 2013 annd we have to apply such patterns

Atomic design

• http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2013/08/02/other-interface-atomic-design-sass/
• http://patternlab.bradfrostweb.com/

Progressive reduction (theory and example)

I guess, this will give developers headache

• http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/42361566927/progressive-reduction
• http://layervault.tumblr.com/post/42442865260/implementing-progressive-reduction

SVG/Icon-Stacks

The SVG Stack with the anchor/target CSS style is a neat idea. Sadly, it’s not well supported by the current browsers.

• http://simurai.com/post/20251013889/svg-stacks
• http://conor.cc/posts/icon-stacks
• http://conor.cc/posts/textured-icons-with-icon-stacks

ImageOptim

Only for reference. I haven’t checked those.

• http://imageoptim.com/
• http://pngmini.com/

• http://jpegmini.com/mac

• https://github.com/JamieMason/ImageOptim-CLI

Good resource: Conor Muirhead

srcset

This will make data-src obsolete, hopefully.

• http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/srcset/w3c-srcset/

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Denys Mishunov - Let me tell you a story

★★★★✩

• Mid-life crisis – I wasn’t totally sure about his intentions, but I liked his stories.

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Urban Etter - Frontend Performance - Where it matters

★✩✩✩✩

• Stuff that is done by any decent framework
• I’m wondering, how serious SRF is taking it’s web development

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Kim Joar Bekkelund - Patterns of Large-Scale Javascript Apps

★★★★★

Recommended book: Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests

• The java guy
• Dependency injection, pass data into a module
• Only access DOM/data within it’s own scope
• Avoid the need for the DOM in modules
• Personal goal: Write an app without jquery/zepto
• AMD < commonjs (or ECMAScript 6) in current browsers

• Personal goal: use require.js / bower / TypeScript

• http://superherojs.com/

• http://www.growing-object-oriented-software.com/

• http://bekk.no

• https://speakerdeck.com/kimjoar/patterns-of-large-scale-javascript-applications