Synopsis
Your JavaScript web badge has to display content quickly, efficiently utilize browser CPU and memory, and avoid colliding with widget neighbors on the same page. What best practices and JavaScript optimizations should be present in every web badge added to a remote site? How can your JavaScript badges fully utilize the power of the web browser to outshine your competition?
In this session you will learn how to create case-hardened web badges from Kent Brewster, one of the key engineers behind the next Yahoo! homepage. Speed is relative until a 500 million people bang on your door wanting new, dynamic content fast. You will learn the JavaScript best practices and nuances needed to transform your web badges into lightweight, intelligent applications operating inside their own namespace and page segment.
