Speaking at FrontFest 2017 in Moscow, Russia

José M. Pérez

José M. Pérez / December 03, 2017

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A couple of weeks ago I attended FrontFest 2017 in Moscow. There were around 200 attendees at Digital October, an impressive venue. I had a lot of fun and met many local developers.

Jose M. Perez speaking at Frontfest Moscow 2017

FrontFest is one of the several JS conferences that take place in Moscow, which has a healthy web community with several meetups that host up to 500 people.

This single-day event was comprised of 5 tracks filled with talks and workshops. Most of the talks and workshops were in Russian, though there was always one talk or workshop in English at a given time.

I especially liked Blaine Cook's talk about UX and developer responsibility managing user authentication. I also enjoyed Mathieu's live-coding and following workshop, where we coded a simple yet very fun game.

My talk about "Progressive Image Rendering"

I had been playing with SVG techniques during the weeks before the event, which I had documented on Using SVG as placeholders — More Image Loading Techniques. Thus, it was a great opportunity to include them in the talk.

I also mentioned the Image Decode API. I first knew about it through Mathieu 'p01' Henri, who told me there were early discussions to implement it when we met at RenderConf Oxford. Even though it's not widely supported I thought it was a good opportunity to talk about it.

This API prevents the browser from blocking the UI when decoding an image, and can be handy when doing lazy-load. Check also this post for an example on how to use it.

Slides

The slides are available on slides.com/jmperez/pir-frontfest and you can also see them right here embedded: