Reading List
- “If you’re a pro, use a validator.” – Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML spec
- Make disaster-proof HTML5 forms Shwetank Dixit shows how to use localstorage to autosave forms fields
- HTML5 video <track> demo for subtitles, chapters, stylable with CSS, by Simon Pieters (@zcorpan) (needs Opera.Next)
- Buttons: They just work. “Don’t try to be too clever or too fancy. It’s designing for you, for the wow factor”
- The road to responsive images – useful introduction to actually authoring it in your websites
- CSS Device Adaptation coming to webkit which is good, as Device Adaptation (AKA “Viewport in CSS” has been in Opera for ages and will be in IE10
- Standards for Web Applications on Mobile: current state and roadmap – W3C
- More thoughts on CU-RTC-WEB vs WebRTC (Summary: either WebRTC’s SDP use needs work, or SDP is just too problematic) – by Mike Smith of W3C
Sublime Text
- WebGLTools / GL-Shader-Validator – ” a Sublime Text 2 plugin that passes GLSL / ESSL to ANGLE’s preprocessor / compiler for validation. Any errors that ANGLE finds are routed back to Sublime and the tokens in the shader are highlighted for your convenience and debugging joy.”
- Element Finder for Sublime Text 2 – “Just copy a CSS selector into Element Finder and you will quickly see all of the HTML elements in your project which match that selector.”
Industry
- Dear ICO, sue us – “We’re sick of you and this ridiculous cookie law. So here’s an ultimatum.”
- Educating Bangladeshi schoolkids about the Web (by me) and my photos of Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 1995
- Mobile operators cheer EC approval for mobile wallet joint venture
- User Experience Euphemisms
Ling’s cars
- Frances Berriman asked “The question for me is really will this class of website, like Ling’s Cars, always exist and will we always just write them off without learning about why they still work for a large set of our audiences?”
- Lings Cars and the art of persuading visitors to buy
Misc
- 20 redundant phrases to eliminate from your writing – “It’s completely unanimous; these phrases should be past history.”
- Tu and Twitter: Is it the end for ‘vous’ in French?
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