Reading List
Web Standards
- Detecting touch: it’s the ‘why’, not the ‘how’ – by cuddlekaiser Patrick Lauke
- Advanced cross-browser flexbox by Chris Mills
- Modernizr incorrectly reports Flexbox support in IE10 (this bit us on the arse when testing Mills’ demos above)
- Why You Should Consider A Ligature Icon Font For Your Next Project – “Search engines and those with accessibility needs, or anyone who has CSS turned off, read the natural text, and everyone else sees the icons.”
- Open Peer – a proposed signalling protocol for WebRTC
- Element Queries – “like a Media Query (specifically, the min-width/etc queries), but for a parent or ancestor element, rather than the viewport” by Tab Atkins
- IE11: what we know and what we can speculate by David Storey
- Browserhacks – because, like eating pot noodles and drinking blue wkd, sometimes you just have to
- Introducing HTML’s new template element by Peteypoo Gasston
- CSS Grid Layout – what has changed? by Rachel Andrew
- SVG Illustrations 201
Industry
- HTML5 vs. Native vs. Hybrid. Global developer survey 2013 interesting stats, however, note comment: “surveyed individuals were (mostly? I am one of them) Telerik customers including Kendo UI customers might have leaned the results towards Windows and HTML 5?”
- Your Mobile Experience Is Not Theirs – Chui Chui Tan on mobile use in Asia
Misc
- Jesus Christ Silicon Valley – very funny. very angry. very sweary. Maybe NSFW if you’re a nun
- Finally! A software license for zombies!