Shawn is an Engineering Manager on the Product and Customer Success Teams at Mobify. He loves to hack both on the front-end and back-end, with a heavy focus on the user experience. When he isn’t hacking, you likely find him playing hockey/video games, eating, or travelling. Shawn has a BSc in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. You can follow him at @shawnjan8.
In this article, Shawn Jansepar will guide you through his experience in building an app for Beyond the Rack in which he and his team mix native and web content to create an app that “feels” native. With Beyond the Rack, he set out to build an app in which he could easily ship value to users without sacrificing the experience. By following an approach that puts technology in the back seat, allowing them to use the right technology for the task, they believe they have achieved just that.
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Much of that page weight could be reduced if images were conditionally optimized based on device width, pixel density and modern image formats. These reductions would result in faster loading times, but the debate isn’t about whether to optimize images for different devices, but about how to go about doing so. In this article, Shawn Jansepar will take a look at Mobify.js, which lets us generate small images for small devices from a single high-resolution image.
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