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00:12 hey everybody
00:14 Joakim in here and today I am really
00:16 excited to introduce you to the new
00:18 agent stacks now several weeks ago
00:21 we had a very great conversation on
00:23 Weaver space and we were talking about
00:26 how on mobile devices
00:28 we really should probably be displaying
00:31 a lot less content than what we do to
00:34 our desktop and tablet users users are
00:37 mostly on the go on their phones and
00:39 maybe they don't need to have all the
00:41 information that they have accessible to
00:44 them on the desktop and on top of that
00:46 they have smaller screens and a lot
00:50 slower bandwidth so why are we sending
00:53 the same content that we do to our
00:56 desktop users as we do to our mobile
00:58 users I know you've gone to a website
01:01 that you scrolled through endlessly
01:04 endlessly because the web page is like
01:08 10 miles long is that good user
01:11 experience for our websites I don't
01:13 think so
01:14 now we've had tools over the years that
01:16 helped us right
01:17 they helped us hide content on mobile on
01:20 tablets and and basically based on the
01:22 device we can hide our content right
01:25 we have several stacks visibility stacks
01:28 and in stacked three we have the
01:29 responsive settings built into every
01:31 stack so that we can easily hide things
01:34 on mobile devices now the key word is it
01:37 hides content on mobile devices
01:40 but that content is still there so what
01:43 can we do how can we completely stop
01:46 loading content on mobile when we don't
01:49 want it well that's where the agent
01:51 stack comes in now when your user visits
01:53 your website your browser sends an HTTP
01:57 request to the server and what happens
01:59 is the agent stack is there listening on
02:01 the server and it's caching what's
02:03 called the user agent data hence the
02:06 name so with this user agent data the
02:10 agent stack knows exactly what
02:13 ice what browser your client is on and
02:16 what platform or what operating system
02:18 they're running so what agent does is it
02:21 actually customizes your content just
02:24 for that user and only sends the data
02:26 that you want down to the browser now
02:30 that's cool so now if you want to show a
02:33 hundred image gallery to your desktop
02:35 users go right ahead they're probably on
02:37 a blazing fast fiber connection right
02:40 put your mobile users maybe you just
02:42 show them one or two images right we can
02:45 now do that so easily with the agent
02:48 stack now you might be thinking why
02:50 would I need to customize content based
02:52 on the platform or operating system that
02:55 our users are visiting from what if you
02:57 are developing some software and you
03:00 want to have a custom download link for
03:03 your user maybe you have a Windows
03:06 version and a Mac version and maybe you
03:08 have you know you want to provide
03:10 download links to the iOS App Store and
03:13 to the Android store well now at the
03:15 agent stack you can get the exact
03:17 download information that your visitors
03:19 need based on the device that they're
03:22 visiting from now the agent URL stack
03:25 allows you to customize content on your
03:28 web pages based on the subdomain of your
03:31 URL or parameters past the web address
03:35 this gives us a lot of flexibility now
03:38 I'm gonna give you a few use cases here
03:40 but I'm sure you guys are gonna come up
03:42 with so many amazing uses for this stack
03:47 so let's say you're displaying some
03:49 product information on your app we
03:50 versus page now if you were to pass some
03:53 parameters to the URL you can load the
03:55 same web page but load the information
03:58 for product B that's really cool on your
04:01 about Us page maybe you want to
04:02 customize the office location based on
04:05 parameters past the URL from San
04:07 Francisco to London for instance now the
04:10 last use case is really cool the agent
04:14 URL stack is a great way to develop
04:17 multi-language websites now in this
04:20 example here we'll notice that if I
04:22 click on one of the language links down
04:24 below
04:25 it will dynamically change the content
04:28 on the page now I've defined this quote
04:31 area here in three different languages
04:33 am i clicking on these links that simply
04:35 adds some parameters to the URL for
04:37 language equals German or Portuguese or
04:39 English now here's a really cool feature
04:41 of agent URL it actually can magically
04:45 store your users preferences between web
04:49 pages so by going to the agent persist
04:52 page we'll notice here that the language
04:55 is the same exact language that I
04:57 clicked on in the previous page I didn't
05:00 need to add any extra parameters the
05:03 agent URL stack just remembered that I
05:05 chose German earlier on now I can easily
05:10 switch back to a different language just
05:11 by clicking these links below and if I
05:13 were to refresh or go back to another
05:15 page agent you all would remember those
05:18 settings as well so I see this is a
05:20 great way of customizing content and
05:24 allowing your users to maybe define the
05:27 content that they want to see in a
05:29 different way so that's the agent stacks
05:31 everybody I hope you see the power and
05:34 the potential that these can give you in
05:36 terms of streamlining your content for
05:38 users devices as well as really making
05:42 it more powerful and allowing you to
05:44 develop websites faster using the agent
05:47 URL sack especially with this
05:49 multi-language if you want to build a
05:51 multi-language web site I mean the agent
05:53 URL stack is the thing I think is the
05:55 most streamlined easiest way out there
05:57 to accomplish this so I'm really excited
06:00 to see what you build with these stacks
06:02 cuz I could said the possibilities are
06:04 really endless I'm really excited to see
06:06 how you leverage the agent URL stack and
06:10 the agent stack to make your site's even
06:12 better and more customized for your
06:14 visitors
06:15 so until next time we'll see you later
06:17 buddy
06:25 I'll be back
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