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Paul Kinlan
April 25, 2013
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State of the Mobile Browser
What is the state of the Mobile Browser? Find out in this presentation for State of the Browser.
Paul Kinlan
April 25, 2013
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Transcript
State of the Mobile Browser google.com/+PaulKinlan goo.gl/3LyMW
Overview
> 1 Billion users have a modern browser.
Every device has to have a "decent" browser.
The browser is still the most used application.
None
Rounded Corners
Naive Look
What is your mobile traffic?
None
None
None
> 50% "We now have more users engaging with Google+
from mobile than desktop." - IO 2012
Mobile The important bits
2 THINGS
Performance Where do you look?
Developers look at the .... Network (time to glass)
I also think UI Jank (time to frustration)
Lumpiness = Less Engagement
None
They have to hack it up like crazy Its no
longer your father's HTML. • Just a <body /> • Busting DOM Trees into iframes to create layers http://goo.gl/P90PK
Where are the bottlenecks? • Javascript? • DOM manipulation? •
Paint?
It's not just the JS + Re-Layouts. + Re-paints +
Decode time X X
None
None
Go home and measure
[email protected]
Inconsistencies
Wot Consistent Platform?
100% Support Mostly boring stuff
Media Queries 100% onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#css-mediaqueries
Geolocation 86% http://onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#geolocation
Offline http://onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#offline-apps 86%
Native developers build online in
Web developers build offline in
Adding offline is a lot harder than online
Camera Access <input type=file accept=image/jpeg capture> Demo http://jsbin.com/avawaj/1 86%
SVG 80% It would be 100% if not for Android
< 3
Flex Box It would be 100% if not for Android
< 3 80%
WebSQL Database 86%
IndexedDB 3% Reaching 3% of the web you might as
well use any API you want....
Thinking about storage in terms of API's is wrong
WebSockets 86% On mobile use wss (secure sockets)
None
Device Orientation onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#deviceorientation 67% window.ondeviceorientation = function(event) { // process
event.alpha, event.beta and event.gamma }; jsbin.com/ofeces/1
FileReader 66%
requestAnimationFrame 44%
Web Audio onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#audio-api 40%
The following might look depressing
But it's really exciting
Shadow DOM onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#shadowdom 3%
getUserMedia onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#stream 2% jsbin.com/iyekuc/3/quiet navigator.getUserMedia( {audio:true, video: true}, function(stream) {
videoEl.src = URL.createObjectURL(stream); });
WebRTC onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#streams 1% apprtc-m.appspot.com
WebGL http://onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#webgl 1% Demo: dungeonfury.playcanvas.com
CSS Filters http://onmobile.iwanttouse.com/#css-filters 43%? <style> img { -webkit-filter: blur(30px); }
</style> http://jsbin.com/orekeb/2/
CSS Custom Shaders 0%
The mobile web is a rich platform
Go and do moar Awesome