Reading List
If you’re in the UK and are interested in the Web, the Speak The Web conference will be in Nottingham, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester this month, for a very small sum of money. What’s really surprising, of course, is that there is anyone outside Brighton who does any Web work.
Standards ‘n’ shizz
- Setting a custom ghost image when using HTML5 drag and drop – vile hackery by @sil (for which I’m partially to blame)
- Progressive enhancement is still important says Jake Archibald
- Yehuda Katz: The Future of the Client-Side Web – 30 min video, well worth watching
- Why JavaScript? – why invest loads of time and effort making JS fit the needs of the modern web, by another reformist TAG member, Alex Russell
- HTML5 Doctor: The <main> element
- Testing the web – practical instructions by HTML5 Dr @boblet on how *you* can help interop by writing reftests
- Introducing Web Animations – harmonising (some of) SVG and CSS animations. Coming soon in Blink, Firefox and Polyfill
- Opt Out of Klout – Now! – “A number on a screen doesn’t control your destiny; you do” says Terence Eden
- Anorak corner: Who designed the “broken image” icons? (Quora link, sorry mobile users)