Reading list
CSS
- CSS Style Guides
- Evolution of CSS Layout: 1990s to the Future by fantasai, superwoman of CSS Working Group
- Do 256 CSS classes outweigh 1 id? No, not according to spec, but in most browsers, yes. (Not in Opera; opera uses 16 bits instead of 8.)
- CSS Variables, why we drop the $foo notation by Daniel Glazman, co-chair of CSS Working Group. Also see Let’s Talk about CSS Variables by Tab Atkins who wrote the spec
- Learning to Love the Boring Bits of CSS
- Responsive Sprites And Media Query Efficiency – a Smashing Mag coding Q&A With Chris Coyier
- Normalize 2.0.1 for projects that don’t need legacy browser support
Standards
- Useful intro article about webRTC and Opus codecs (both of which Opera will support) by CNET’s Steve Shankland
- Adobe roadmap for the Flash runtimes for 5 – 10 years: AFAICT, basically it’s gaming and premium video
- WebAIM’s WCAG 2 checklist
- WebVTT support in browsers
- Fixing common Unicode mistakes with Python — after they’ve been made
Industry
- Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple? – Agree. A browser I know has features copied all the time. It makes us all better
- Profit and PR are the real enemies of innovation – “From drugs to computers, the big rewards are now in tweaking existing products and presenting them as ground-breaking”
- Design jargon explained: Skeuomorphism
- Your words are wasted – “Your Blog is The Engine of Community. You are not blogging enough. Every developer should have a blog” says Scott Hanselman. I couldn’t agree more
- New Microsoft Logo – Si Jobling’s critique of the new logo is a welcome relief from moronic “hur hur Microsoft: shit. Apple? Swoon!” nonsense
Super-NSFW Corner
- Fifty Shades Generator – Traditionally, print and web designers had to make use of placeholder text known as Lorem Ipsum. Now, creatives can excite clients in more ways than one with Fifty Shades of Grey-inspired filler text.”
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[...] A good piece discussing the lawsuit and the issues it represents is “Who Cares If Samsung Copied Apple” by James Allworth, which I saw via a link on Bruce Lawson’s reading list of the day. [...]
Nice to see the Harvard Business Review coming down in favour of copying as encouraging innovation. The Economist has been banging this drum for a while: http://www.economist.com/node/21554500
As Oscar Wilde put it: “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”.