Reading List
HTML5, CSS 3
- Shiny Demos – Web Standads demos by Opera, to celebrate the release of Opera 12
- 12 CSS3 Vendor Prefix Crisis Myths by Craig Buckler
- HTML5 Audio APIs – How Low can we Go? by Mark Boas
- Usability testing with children by Debbo
- Stumbling on the escalator – jolly good post by Christian Heilmann about people forgetting basic principles of Progressive Enhancement
- The future of HTML5 video by me
- CSS Gradient Finder give it a gradient PNG and out pops the code to recreate it just with CSS
- About HTML semantics and front-end architecture by Nicolas Gallagher
- HTML appache now supports “prefer-online” setting
- Proposal: Introduction of a <transcript> element
Mobile and cross-device development
- Responsive images: what’s the problem, and how do we fix it? by Matt “Grrrrr” Wilcox
- @viewport in IE10 – IE10 and Opera now support CSS Device Adaptation (AKA “CSS viewport”)
- Understanding viewport – A set of simple HTML pages with various viewport and media query settings, for educational purposes by Andreas Bovens
- Create a responsive mobile first menu
- Web TV report – “the way consumers use TV and their attitude to programmes has changed dramatically since the advent of internet-enabled television”
Misc
- Fear and loathing and Windows 8 – “Even the plain colorful graphics in Windows 8 that looked so cool when I first saw them are starting to look ominous to me, like the hotel decor in The Shining”
- Film psychology: THE SHINING, spatial awareness and set design (YouTube video)
- Abandoned London
- clippy.js – “Add Clippy or his friends to any website for instant nostalgia. Our research shows that people love two things: failed Microsoft technologies and obscure Javascript libraries. Naturally, we decided to combine the two”