Yes, and it shouldn't be the person who designs it. [...] One person designs the standard, another person implements it. If you cannot design the standard so well that you trust any other person in the world to implement that standard correctly, you shouldn't be implementing that standard in the first place.
Participant 12
Touch input, scrolling and animations In this interview we got to learn about the challenges with a specific project, touching on many different topics:
I'm very interested in making very fluid, smooth web applications, especially on mobile. And struggling with that a bit too much to be honest, especially with browser compatibility. I feel the web platform community really wants it to be there, like you can build apps that feel like native, but I always feel like it's a bit of a lie, because even if you do your very best and you put a shit-tonne of effort into it, it's probably still not going to quite feel like native, especially when it comes to touch interactions and stuff. Gestures are very difficult. Sensor stuff works, but maybe not as well. That's what I'm struggling with a little bit with the web platform.
Tell us more about the last mobile web application you worked on.
One major web app that I worked on that was very mobile focused, and also very ambitious, was a 30 room planner [...] The idea was to have an application where you could arrange pictures on the wall and try out different arrangements. [...] We wanted to have that working really smoothly on mobile. On the one hand it was very challenging to get a lot of the 30 stuff right. [...] We did a lot of prerendering so the performance was actually not so much of a problem, and from the 30 side I think also the compatibility was fine. I didn't do most of the WebGL stuff, but I feel like as long as you don't have to support IE11, because that's a little different, the compatibility is pretty much fine across all browsers and they all behave mostly the same.
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