Ada.is

The blog of Ada Rose Cannon

I work on Safari at Apple and participate in web standards for spatial and immersive technologies at the W3C. I build demos, give talks, and write about the web platform.

Demos & Experiments

A collection of web projects and prototypes.

Conference Talks

Talks I've given on WebXR, web standards, and the web platform.

About Me

More about who I am and what I have worked on.

Writing

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Web Workers in the Real World

I wrote this article whilst building a demo website which uses both expensive physics and an expensive SVG filter. It was important that it felt really tactile on mobile devices, so it had to run very smoothly.

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Web Development on a Phone. Updated for Linux on DeX.

Last year I wrote about how you can use a phone for web development using an Android Linux Terminal and a simple editor I’d made as a Progressive Web App. It worked pretty well but had some drawbacks, for example you couldn’t debug Samsung Internet on the DeX you had to use an external laptop.

Example of running Three.js in a Houdini Paint Worklet

[Video] Ada's Twitch Tech Talks, Episode 2