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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) DRM-free, of course. Get Print + eBook.

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Seamless offloading of web app computations from mobile device to edge clouds via HTML5 Web Worker migration

The Morning Paper

Since we’re talking about mobile applications, we have to assume a changing environment over time, including the possibility of losing internet connectivity altogether. These use their regression models to estimate processing time (which will depend on the hardware available, current load, etc.).

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. These include data transfer (i.e.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

The early days at Sun Cambridge were special, I absorbed a lot about networking and the technical side of the role from my fellow systems engineer Martin Baines, and we were driving all over the region in cool company cars (I had a Citroen BX 16V) selling a really hot product.

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Error Tracking - Top Suggestions and Tools

KeyCDN

Monitoring errors on the front-end requires a bit more work because front-end performance is highly dependant on the user’s hardware, software and connection. Of course, there are also times when the problem lies not with your application but with the user’s connection or network configuration.

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Reducing Carbon Emissions On The Web

Smashing Magazine

The only time the Internet was mentioned was as a tool for communicating with one another without the need to chop down more trees, or for working without a commute. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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The Cloud is Not a Railroad - An Argument Against the Vertical Separation of Cloud Providers

High Scalability

Each cloud-native evolution is about using the hardware more efficiently. Network effects are not the same as monopoly control. Cloud providers incur huge fixed costs for creating and maintaining a network of datacenters spread throughout the word. And even that list is not invulnerable. Neither are clouds.

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