Reading List
- Scriptless Attacks – Stealing the Pie without touching the Sill – amazing slidedeck of security attacks without scripting
- Public service announcement: time to update your CSS3 by David Storey
- Using ARIA in HTML – Which HTML5 elements benefit from use of ARIA roles? by Steve Faulkner
- Deploying New Image Formats on the Web
- Progressive jpegs: a new best practice
- Simple SubRip to WebVTT converter by @delphiki
- Microsoft patches Webkit to prototype its Pointer Event proposal – an open standard that unifies touch, mouse and pen. But, Goodness me! Apple doesn’t like the Pointer Event proposal. Why could that be?
- Responsive Design for Apps — Part 1 by Jason Grigsby
- HTML5 Bones – the bare minimum required to get going with HTML5 by Ian Devlin
- Why moving elements with translate() is better than pos:abs top/left by Paul Irish
- <table sortable> Sortable tables in HTML5 – yay!
- CSS gradient syntax, compatibility tables from Mr PPK
Industry
- “If enterprises design for the top 10 most used mobile devices they still only cover 56% of global traffic share”
- Ubuntu Phone O/S 2 min demo – provided that I can install any browser that runs on Ubuntu desktop, I’m really looking forward to trying this.
- How Blind People Use Instagram (or one blind guy, anyway)
- France’s second-largest ISP deploys ad blocking via firmware update – “Block is enabled by default — French tech news sites are très unhappy”
- Penetration of HbbTV (=TV+web) in different territories (PDF) Trigger warning: Powerpoint hell
- Apple: Innovator’s dilemma – Financial Times – “for Apple sceptics, the swinging stock-price chart had a different meaning: that Apple has peaked.”
- Are Designers Crazy? asks Terence Eden. The answer seems to be “no”, it’s just that they see things which mere mortals perceive but not consciously.
- 10 Web Predictions for 2013 by Craig Buckler at Sitepoint
- Be proud to be a web developer by @yatil
Misc
- The Spot: Angels of Death The story behind McCann Australia’s adorably grim viral megahit about train safety (Probably everyone on the web has seen this except for me)
- The Horror of Being the Only Foodie at Christmas
- Banter about Dildoes – Shopping in Ancient Rome: The Retail Trade in the Late Republic and the Principate (London Review of Books)
- The Poetry Translation Centre – “We’re a small organisation dedicated to translating contemporary poetry from Africa, Asia and Latin America.”
- Extreme Amazing Super-Chess! New rules to make chess more exciting for the video-game generation
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