Reading List
Web Standards ‘n’ shit, f’shizzle
- Ditching responsive design – why GoCardless ditched their resposive re-design
- You like apples? – Ecommerce site’s sales up 112% – 333% comparing responsive and non-responsive designs
- No, I’m not going to download your bullshit app – Admirable sentiment, swearing and grumpiness
- Accessible HTML5 Media Players and More by Dennis Lembree of WebAxe
- The real conflict behind <picture> and @srcset
- Retina Revolution – technique to serve lower-bandwidth jpgs that look good on retina displays
- Notes on the classList API
- Balancing Text for better readability –
text-wrap: balance. I’ve been sceptical of some of the Adobe CSS proposals, but I heart this - CSS background-position and percent – calc() to the rescue but background-origo property would be nice
- IndexedDB, what were the issues? How do we stop it from happening again? – I thought my difficulties with IndexedDB were because I’m thick. But even clever people dislike the API. (WebSQL was simpler but was tied to a specific dialect of SQL so withered on the vine.)
- You’re Missing the Point of Promises
Interoperability corner
- Hello Chrome, it’s Firefox calling! – Firefox & Chrome videoconferencing in-browser via webRTC (no plugins or proprietary gronks)
- Netflix to stream to Chrome O/S using Native Client plugin – presumably for “DRM”?
Industry
- Cisco’s Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update – “Last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly twelve times the size of the entire global Internet in 2000. Average smartphone usage grew 81 percent in 2012. Android is now higher than iPhone levels of data use.”
- Power and the Internet essay by Bruce Schneier as a response to Edge’s annual question, “What *Should* We Be Worried About?”
- Report on the activity of companies in the WebKit project – “it has evolved from a project clearly driven by Apple … to the current situation, with Google leading the top contributors … it is also noteworthy how the diversity of the project is increasing, with new players starting to show a significant activity.”
- Galaxy versus Android at the Superbowl – “it looks like the Samsung Galaxy brand is starting to overtake ‘Android’ in consumer awareness”
- 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords – Using a text editor to modify content management system (CMS) configuration files (like wp-config.php) could expose your database password to the world.
- Apple Core Rot: Introduction – “OS X is degrading into a base for an entertainment platform. As it stands, the trend is entirely downhill for serious work … Core operating system quality is declining as resources are diverted to software development in more profitable lines: iPhone, iPad, iHaveNoRealWorkToDo products. Apple forgets its history and leaves it core professional base twisting in the wind.” (Reader comments)
- Put Alan Turing on the next £10 note – petition that I’ve signed. It seems more useful to make people aware of his work and the circumstances behind his death than issue some meaningless posthumous “sorry”.
- Convert Word documents to clean HTML