Front-end London is a free event hosted by Made by Many that's dedicated to all aspects of front-end development.
We aim to cover a wide variety of topics such as CSS, Sass / LESS, RWD and JavaScript, with thought-provoking talks from a variety of speakers.
Tickets sold outSpeakers
Ian Feather
Lonely PlanetWeb fonts have brought us beautiful online type but they've also brought us interminable blank screens while we wait for them to load. I'll highlight a few different alternatives for moving web fonts off the critical path, dealing with FOUT, and take a look at the performance benefits of each approach.
Siavash Ghorbani
TictailThe development of JavaScript at Tictail, from zero to Tictail and how Tictail became a front end application that runs in your browser.
Jake Archibald
Google'Rendering without the lumpy bits'
We'll look at a series of real-world rendering issues and how to combat them, understanding why particular hacks work, and how sometimes working against the browser can trick it into performing better. Covering basic html layout and animation, GPU interaction and high-dpi (retina) considerations across browsers and devices.
