Reading List
- Future of HTML – some soul-searching at W3C TPAC meeting on future of HTML5 spec vs WHATWG HTML Living Standard, and Steve Faulkner’s thoughts (on Medium; he’s so Thought-Leader)
- Is Google usable? – an eye-opening usability lab video of a featurephone user’s first contact with the web, trying to type a search term into Google on a smartphone
- Three years with CSS Grid Layout – self-appointed Grid Cheerleader Rachel Andrew writes on how the spec’s evolved as she’s waved her pompoms
- Building an offline page for theguardian.com “How we used service workers to build a custom offline page for theguardian.com”
- Background Synchronization – “A design and spec for ServiceWorker-based background synchronization”
- The Web Payments Browser API– a proposal for an API that “enables web developers to register payment instruments (credit card, PayPal, Bitcoin, etc.), initiate requests for payment, and acknowledge requests for payment.
- Less content marketing, more quality content – “Telenor of Norway deleted almost 90% of their pages. Conversions went up by 100%. support requests went down by 35%”
- Full support for network interception using Service Workers in Firefox 44 Developer Edition.
- CSS Round Display Level 1 – extending CSS for circular displays. Draft by LG, with watches as the usecase.
- Things To Avoid When Writing CSS by Heydon Pickering (and part 2)
- <panels> and <panelsets> – proposed new HTML thangs. Write-up by permaglam Leonie Watson.
- Opera Max data-saving app to come bundled on Samsung, Xiaomi phones. We expect 100 million Android devices to ship with Opera Max by 2017.
- Petition – Government to abandon all ideas of trying to ban strong encryption “At 10,000 signatures, government will respond to this petition. At 100,000 signatures, this petition will be considered for debate in Parliament”. (UK folks only. But please sign).
- Internet browsing history – Freedom of Information request for “all websites visits made through parliamentary PCs made by MPs or their staff during the past 12 months.”
- Metadata of emails sent to and from the Home Secretary F.O.I. request – because if you’ve nothing to hide, you’ve nothing to fear.
- The changing form of the web browser – thought-piece by Peter Gasston
Top quality rant by Linus about “compiler masturbation” – One day, I’ll tell him exactly what I think about Git’s command line.