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The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

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Re: The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

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Post by cletus »

God I hate video presentations for something like this. Give me an article with sections that I can quickly skim. Give me bullet points. When I want more detail I'll read it.

what's worse is that the narration is incredibly tedious. He goes on for 2 minutes about the problem jQuery Mobile is attempting to solve. We're developers. We get it. Keep it moving.

Just now I have the section on jQuery 1.4.3. He goes on for a minute with what could just as easily have been said with "It will fix several bugs. Those bugs are..." but yet he goes on about how important these bug fixes are.

Basically, just like there is an art to being concise in writing, if anything that's even more important in video because it's much harder to "skim".

Basically this is a 28 minute video that could've covered its material in 5 minutes tops.

Re: The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

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Post by nodata »

smiler wrote: post #8
al_james wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Does anyone else automatically hit the back button when you see a video and not a nice, concise, article?

Yup - I am sure a business could be started around this for providing summaries of videos etc for businesses and people too busy to watch a video but will read some text

Well YouTube already has (currently terrible) machine text transcriptions...

Re: The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

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Post by techiferous »

smiler wrote: post #8
al_james wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Does anyone else automatically hit the back button when you see a video and not a nice, concise, article?

Yup - I am sure a business could be started around this for providing summaries of videos etc for businesses and people too busy to watch a video but will read some text

There is a definite need for this. For example, asciicasts.com is the same content as railscasts.com but as an article instead of video.

Re: The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

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Post by pstuart »

al_james wrote: post #10
al_james wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Does anyone else automatically hit the back button when you see a video and not a nice, concise, article?

Just to clarify: I do think videos have a place, its just that place is further down the line (e.g. I want to know more) rather than the 'initial introduction'.

Perfect example of such: TED Talks.

Re: The Future of jQuery - What To Look Forward To In Late 2010 & Beyond

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Post by spicyj »

chime wrote: post #3
spicyj wrote: post #2

Anyone have a nice summary? I don't have time to watch the video now.

Here are my paraphrased notes as I was watching the video: In brief: Presenter - Addy Osmani 1) jQuery Mobile 2) jQuery 1.4.3 3) Future of jQuery Details: 1) jQuery Mobile: Create customized app that will work on almost all smartphones. Less work for all developers, short learning curve. Write once, work everywhere - same idea that prompted Resig to design jQuery. Write webapps that aren't tied down to particular dev…

Thanks.
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