April 24, 2013 at 9:15pm • 1 hour 30 minutes
Electronic book formats are changing. EPUB3 and HTML5 are providing tools to create new forms of books, with richer experiences. Nellie McKesson joins Jen Simmons to explain where digital books have been, and where they are going.
April 11, 2013 at 8:45pm • 1 hour 18 minutes
Chrome recently announced they will replacing the webkit rendering engine with a new one, named Blink. What's up with that? To find out, Chris Wilson and Paul Irish join Jen Simmons to explain rendering engines and vendor prefixes.
March 6, 2013 at 2:00pm • 1 hour 9 minutes
After years of many independent sites documenting and teaching web development, the W3C and a consortium of browser makers and companies have come together to create a central resource for information about web technologies — Web Platform Docs. Peter Lubbers and Scott Rowe join Jen Simmons to talk about the project.
February 27, 2013 at 10:00pm • 1 hour 34 minutes
Page layout on the web has been constrained for many years by the available technologies. But new technologies that are coming in CSS3 — flexbox, grid layout, regions, and more — promise for an interesting future. Rachel Andrew joins Jen Simmons to explain.
February 15, 2013 at 7:15pm • 1 hour 4 minutes
Danny Sullivan joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for the latest episode in The Web Behind series. Danny reminisces about the early days of web search, directories versus crawlers, the panoply of search engines in the mid-1990s, page counts as serious bragging rights, the brief period when there were search engines that only searched other search engines, the verbing of “Google,” and more.
Special guest Eric Meyer.
January 15, 2013 at 7:15pm • 1 hour 6 minutes
Jen Robbins joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for another episode in The Web Behind series. They talk about the early days of web design, O'Reilly, GNN, wrestling with technology and more.
Special guests Eric Meyer & Jennifer Robbins.
December 20, 2012 at 10:45am • 1 hour 35 minutes
Tantek Çelik joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons for another episode in The Web Behind series. They talk about OpenDoc, Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, doctype switching, semantic data formats, and much more.
Special guest Eric Meyer.
December 7, 2012 at 11:30pm • 2 hours 1 minute
Designer, speaker and author Andy Clarke joins Jen Simmons to talk about the process of web design. Andy starts with a rant about online criticism, and goes on to talk about techniques, tools and more.
Special guest Andy Clarke.
November 28, 2012 at 8:00pm • 1 hour 3 minutes
Tom Bruce joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons to talk about the very earliest days of the web, writing the first Windows web browser, inventing 'marquee', and taking a road trip to NCSA with Tim Berners-Lee.
Special guest Eric Meyer.
November 15, 2012 at 4:30pm • 1 hour 8 minutes
Chris Wilson joins Eric Meyer and Jen Simmons to talk about the origins of the Mosaic Browser and his work on Internet Explorer 3 and 4.
Special guest Eric Meyer.
