Here’s what I’ve been reading that you might find interesting. How to document the screen reader user experience – BBC Apple owes Brit iOS app devs millions from excessively high commission says a proposed class action filed with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on behalf of 1,566 app developers in the UK Apple can delay […]
The F-word Episode 5 – Wow, a sonic double whammy! Not only did Taylor Swift release Folklore, but Episode 5 of @fword_dev is just out. Vadim and I invited the George Clooney of web standards, Brian Kardell, to tell us about the Open Prioritization experiment, Igalia, MathML and the Web commons. ARIA Grid As an […]
Link o’the Week: Open Peeps is a library of illustrated people – mix and match expressions, clothes, etc. Free for personal/commercial use, by Pablo Stanley. Me! Me! Me! corner: Web Accessibility Checklist: 15 Things to Improve Your Website Accessibility – a monster 5000 words from yours truly, on avoiding the worst and most common errors. […]
Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language. Ruffle targets both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly. npm Pulls Malicious Package that Stole Login Passwords – “computers that had this package installed or running should be considered “fully compromised because it deployed an executable for Windows operating system.” Midyear […]
Golden link: I’m a fucking webmaster – “We need to remember that at its core a web page is simple. That’s the beauty of it.” Delivering Octicons with SVG – Github replaced its icon fonts with SVG, referencing Seren Davies’ slide deck about dyslexia Death to icon fonts. If you want to do the same, […]
Making the Switch Away from Icon Fonts to SVG: Converting Font Icons to SVG – by Sara Soueidan A Revised Subgrid Specification by Rachel Andrew Updating Our Prefixing Policy – No new -webkit-woo-shiny prefixes. New features will be behind a runtime flag. Yay! Payment Request API (Draft) “describes a web API to allow merchants (i.e. […]
Subgrids thinking out loud – “our thoughts about subgrids feature from CSS Grid Layout specification”, by Igalia, who are implementing Grids in Blink More Chinese Mobile UI Trends Chrome change breaks the visual viewport writes PPK Progressive Web Apps – a list compiled by Opera Developer Relations. Your’s isn’t on the list? Add it. Font […]
This week’s Golden Link: Service Worker Cookbook from Mozilla “is a collection of working, practical examples of using service workers in modern web apps” Progressive Web Apps 30 minute video from Chrome Dev Summit session with Alex Russell (Google) and Andreas Bovens (my boss, Opera). Manifest Generator by me and Stuart Langridge mentioned in the […]
Well, spank me with a pilchard, dress me up as an otter and call me “Madam Sugartits” – here’s this week’s reading list! Appear.in workshop and extensions – my fave is “handoff” that lets you transfer a video call from desktop to Android, because I like the idea that my devices are interconnected. WAI-ARIA – […]
Web Components punch list – “Considerations for web component and custom control design: If your control has the stuff below covered, excellent! If not then please implement it before shouting to the world about it being the next big thing.” by Steve Faulkner Brum Tech Scene – On Monday, Stuart Langridge launched a series of […]