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Web tech
- HTML5 media and data URIs
- iPhone 5 website teardown: How Apple compresses video using JPEG, JSON, and <canvas> – the crazy lengths Apple will go to in order not to serve open video
- The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW
- Time to load localStorage into memory – how slow is localStorage on desktop? Not that slow at all.
- Server-Side Device Detection: History, Benefits And How-To – why UA-sniffing is better than Responsive Web Design, by the CTO of .mobi and the co-founder of WURFL
Do Not Track
- Direct Marketing Association attempts to subvert Do Not Track standard – “Marketing fuels the world. It is as American as apple pie…Its byproduct also furthers democracy, free speech, and – most importantly in these times – JOBS.”
- The Bizarre, Belated Assault on Do Not Track
- Advertisers ignoring Microsoft’s ‘do not track’ settings will not break industry rules, says ad body
Industry
- A primer on sexism in the tech industry by Faruk Ateş
- A primer on sexism in the tech industry – by an actual girl
- How Do They Make Money? – a look at how big web companies generate revenue