Bruce Lawson's personal site : Reading List 227

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Bruce: Hi Dawn, you could do wget https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Stegosaurus, then prince stegosaurus.html, assuming...

Bruce: @jaz – done it! I’ve never had more than 50 comments before, so didn’t know that it...

Stephanie Rewis: Well, this is sad then. I hadn’t looked at `ins` or `del` in regards to a11y in a while....

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Dony: h1 is an overview of the entire contents of the blog if h1 is more than one whether the robot engine is not...

Jaz Wray: Rich, Thank you for sharing. I am glad to hear you had some quality time with Buck and still think of it...

Tom: Is it still the same web check process? Is there still an option to add in your middle name in the advanced...

coxy: Thanks, as always, for the interesting links! Saves me scouring the web for myself.

Bruce: @zomars, I don’t believe so. Note, Prince is free for non-commercial use (it puts a small watermark on...

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Reading List 227

Friday 29 March 2019

Planning for Responsive Images with some magical CSS Grid
What’s new on iOS 12.2 for Progressive Web Apps by Maximiliano Firtman
Bit, a distributed virtual component repository for projects built in a modular way (open source)
Standardizing WASI: A system interface to run WebAssembly outside the web by Lin Clark
HTTP State Tokens – draft spec by Mike West (Google) on a mechanism for”better cookies”
HTML email reborn, as Google brings AMP to your inbox -“With AMP embeds, email can now contain rich interactivity, not just text and pictures”. Whoop-de-fucking-doo.
Grindr ‘up for sale on security grounds’ – “US authorities expressed concern that [Kunlun Group] the firm’s ownership of the US-based firm is a national security risk”. Kunlun is the leading partner in the consortium that own Opera browsers.
Idiosyncracies of the HTML parser – a fabulously geeky book by Simon Pieters
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com – a useful URL lengthener