The Extensible Web Manifesto – important. Why We Need Responsive Images – 72% less image weight, Tim Kadlec concludes after crunching some numbers Is Github racist? asks Terence Eden in linkbaiting mode. No, but “we should consider the practice of not supporting Unicode as outmoded and dangerous as assuming every year can be represented by [...]
Standards Exposing privileged APIs to web content – “a discussion on the challenges we face in exposing privileged APIs to web content and a proposal for exposing such APIs to web pages by mitigating the risks inherent in doing so.” by Rich Tibbett Resource Priorities – “Using the lazyload attribute on a resource will signal [...]
At Google I/O last week, I was hoping to hear Google’s thoughts on responsive images. Every developer I speak to wonders how to send the right image size to browsers, Google is obsessed with performance, Peter Beverloo and Paul Kinlan were explicit in their talk Mobile HTML: The Future of Your Sites that web sites [...]
Here’s your reading list for the next 2 weeks – I’m off to Google i/o where I’ll be speaking at the “Web Platform Fireside Chat” 3pm (to 3.40pm) on the Friday, Room 5. Come and say hi if you’re going to San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair). Standards’n’shit More than [...]
Some very meaty stuff this week, so it’ll last you 2 weeks (next week I’m in Las Vegas for Future Insights Live conference – use the discount code “Bruce” to get 10% off the ticket price). Web Standards HTML5 VIDEO bytes on iOS Mobile devices by Steve Souders: “Mobile devices ignore all values of PRELOAD [...]
If you fancy coming to Future Insights Live in Las Vegas 29 April – 2 May 2013, use the discount code “Bruce” to get 10% off the ticket price. Web Standards <img defer> <img async> <img lazy> Feature to make <img /> elements not load their images until needed – also see Resource Priorities Explaining [...]
The <hgroup> elements is removed from HTML 5.1. It was defined as “typically used to group a set of one or more h1-h6 elements — to group, for example, a section title and an accompanying subtitle.” I shan’t be sad to see it go; in November 2010, I argued that it was too hard to [...]
Web Standards Detecting touch: it’s the ‘why’, not the ‘how’ – by cuddlekaiser Patrick Lauke Advanced cross-browser flexbox by Chris Mills Modernizr incorrectly reports Flexbox support in IE10 (this bit us on the arse when testing Mills’ demos above) Why You Should Consider A Ligature Icon Font For Your Next Project – “Search engines and [...]
The web platform has advanced out of all recognition, and continues to evolve at a frankly bewildering pace (I’m paid to keep track of all this stuff, and if I take a fortnight’s holiday I scramble to get back on top of it). Four years ago, if you wanted to access your device’s GPS information, [...]
Inspired by the excellent Thatcher for One Direction fans, here’s my guide to Open Web Standards for fans of the finest band since .. like, ever! Interoperability Imagine that you and your bezzies save up and buy a brand new guitar for Niall. You write to the fan club, and they send you VIP tix [...]