Reading List
Here’s your bank holiday reading list!
- Is HTML Relevant in the Age of Web Apps? – edited transcript of John Allsopp’s Full Frontal 2012 talk
- SVG Fallbacks by Chris Coyier. Good comments.
- Blink: Add support for the object-fit CSS property by Opera’s Morten Stenshorne
- Around the World Wide Web in Eighty Minutes – a fun look at internationalisation capabilities on the Web by Richard Ishida
- Font Hacking – “primer on extracting, deconstructing, altering and replacing letterforms”. With good jokes.
- W3C Launches Web and Mobile Interest Group – “that is chartered to accelerate the development of Web technology so that it becomes a compelling platform for mobile applications and the obvious choice for cross platform development” starring Jo Rabin (John Steed), Marcos Caceras (Mike Gambit), Natasha Rooney (Purdey).
- Responsive Web Design is Solid Gold by Jason Grigsby – “I’m now firmly on the side that there is no mobile context. We have abundant data that shows that people use their mobile devices indoors and for a wide variety of things.”
- How easy is it to hack JavaScript in a browser?
- Daala video compression “Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology.” Hooray! Another video format.
- Semantic data markup: Microdata, yea nor nay? (warning: Google+)
- How well do the HTML 5 replacements for table summary attribute work with current Screen Readers and Browsers?
- W3C: Splash screen for native web apps
- Proposed update to <cite> element definition (see my article On citing quotations. Again. for more).
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About Daala, I would have also quoted: