Bruce Lawson’s personal site

NEWT

• Interview with Ian Hickson by Yours Truly
• Flexbox — fast track to layout nirvana? beginner’s Flexbox tutorial updated
• CSS Techniques for Retina Displays
• why you should not suggest a HTTP content negotiation as a solution to a problem
• Bandwidth Media Queries? We Don’t Need ’Em!
• Get started with WebRTC – a nice step by step introduction.
• Play safely in sandboxed IFrames
• Don’t do this in responsive web development: “maximum-scale=1.0”
• Anorak’s corner: First suggestion of CSS Media Queries: "DISPLAY_HEIGHT > 30cm ? stylesheet : alternative stylesheet by Opera CTO Håkon W Lie, 10 Oct 1994
• Resetting All Properties: the ‘all’ property – New in CSS: ‘all: default’ on an element blocks all inheritance & resets all properties, as if no author rules are specified
• Layout tables and repair techniques by the newly re-animated Gez Lemon. Good to have him back
• When Infinite Scroll Doesn’t Work
• Game-icons.net – Hundreds of free icons to customize and include in your games
• Beautiful Web Type – a showcase of the best typefaces from the Google web fonts directory

Industry

• Nokia’s smartphone sales almost return to where they were two years ago while featurephones are still 4 of every 5 Nokia phone sold
• Conferences aren’t the problem – Frances Berriman on the fact that lack of diversity of conference speakers reflects that in our industry. She’s right, of course; if our industry were really diverse, our sites would be accessible. Link includes bonus comment from holocaust-denier who dislikes diversity.
• Reformists elected to the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) – apparently the first reform will be all meetings in fancy dress, and any disagreements to be decided by pogo stick race
• Jay Fanelli on online etiquette – “You may think you’re standing outside the building, harmlessly yelling at the front door, but you’re really standing next to someone’s desk embarrassing them in front of their colleagues.”

Misc

• Fun with MaKey MaKey’s for kids of all ages [sic] – Linda Sandvik automatically photos her cats when their tongues dip into the cat milk.
• Lavatory self-portraits -bored on a longhaul flight? Lock yourself in the loo and dress up as renaissance Dutch painting.
• Four robots playing “Ace of Spades”

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