Reading List
Standards
- Polymer “is a new type of library for the web, built on top of Web Components”
- In defense of the humble id attribute by John Allsopp
- Disable double tap zoom on mobile sites, to remove 300ms click delay – Chromium fix
- Appcache, not so much a douchebag as a complete pain in the #$%^ by John Allsopp, the only Australian on he planet who euphemises the word “arse”
- Web platform technologies in Safari 6.1 and 7 by Peteypoo Gasston
- CSS Regions: New working draft – for those who really, really wish the web were print, after all
Industry
- Call for information on the supply of Information and Communications Technology to the public sector – UK Office of Fair Trading seeks to find out “whether there are barriers to entry which make it difficult for smaller businesses to compete”, “whether public sector users face high barriers to switching suppliers, such as costs of transferring and restrictive licence agreements”, “whether some suppliers seek to limit the interoperability and use of competitor systems with their own”
- A Gov Supreme by Jeremy Keith: “the biggest challenges of responsive design … are to do with people. Specifically, the way that people work together.”
- Leaked letter shows ISPs and government at war – BBC report on the UK government’s “think of the children” pretext for Web censorship
- The web: less engine, more gas – “we look like magpies constantly alighting on the next shiny thing, losing sight of the bigger picture”
Misc
- In praise of meddling kids – The intrepid debunking teens – and a dog – make Scooby Doo ideal rationalist TV
- FOAAS (Fuck Off As A Service) “provides a modern, RESTful, scalable solution to the common problem of telling people to fuck off.”
PS: We just released a preview of Opera 16. Here’s a comparison video made by Austin Evans, a technology video producer on Youtube, comparing Opera 15, Firefox 22, Chrome 27 and IE 10. He tested the browsers’ speed, security and performance in a variety of ways.
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