Reading List
- MTV’s Responsive Design Boosts Metrics on Mobile & Beyond “which had a tremendous impact on mobile engagement” says Luke W. And here’s some more responsive case studies collated by Bradford Frostypants
- Longdesc alternatives in HTML5 – “a resource documenting alternatives (hopefully better alternatives) to longdesc in HTML 5” by James Craig
- On Use of the Lang Attribute – what are the practical user benefits of the
<html lang="">attribute, and how widespread is it? asks glamorous Adrian Roselli - What’s new in CSS Selectors 4 I hear you ask. Well RTFA then.
- Adobe’s nice {text-wrap:balance} idea comes back, this time in the draft CSS Text Level 4 spec.
- Flash of Faux Text—still more on Font Loading – “After we’ve defeated the Flash of Invisible Text, we also want to decrease the amount of reflow a user sees when the font switches from fallback to @font-face.”
- Flexbox 2 ideas. Yes, Flexbox 2. It rhymes with “Sexbox Ooh”.
- Biweekly web components meet-up notes – I wasn’t there this week, but it’s good to see accessibility and extending existing HTML elements using
is=""on there. - Tabindex Focus Navigation Explainer – Better Focus Navigation for Shadow DOM. In other words, trying to make Web Components more accessible to keyboard users.
- Securing the Web: W3C Draft TAG Finding 11 January 2015
- W3C TAG election results – Travis Leithead (Microsoft), Mark Nottingham (Akamai), Alex Russell (Google), and Yan Zhu (Yahoo!) elected.
- Drag and Drop on File Inputs in HTML by Adobe’s Raymond “Mr IDB” Camden.
- The problem with Angular by PPK, and follow-up Angular and templating.
- Competing on Chrome – Aaron Gustafson’s analysis of the shift in the way browsers compete: “Standards-compliance should be a given; browsers should be competing on the extra stuff they offer”. Quite.
- Using WEBP/JPEG 2000/JPEG-XR/APNG Now With Picturefill and Modernizr
- WordPress to Jekyll Exporter “One-click WordPress plugin that converts all posts, pages, taxonomies, metadata, and settings to Markdown and YAML which can be dropped into Jekyll.”
- How to approach forking Chromium
- BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory. This has been widely mocked, but the always-interesting and glamorous Terence Eden writes BlackBerry’s “App Neutrality” isn’t as crazy as it sounds.