Reading List
Standards
- JavaScript Promises There and back again – by Jake Archibald
- Happy 17th Birthday CSS by John Allsopp
- Subtitles and captions with WebVTT by Tiffany “Tiffles” Brown
- Using ARIA to enhance SVG accessibility
- The
dialogelement: she’s a modal and she’s looking good. - Guessing the fallback encoding from the top-level domain name before trying to guess from the browser localization – pros and cons of a potential Firefox patch by Henri Sivonen
- Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility – simple accessibility checks for the non-coder. I ❤ ‘not “alt tag”‘
Industry
- Get Started With GitHub Pages (Plus Bonus Jekyll)
- How mobile changed the life of Thai farmers – Farmers can access useful information on agricultural developments from their mobile phones for free by using a service *1677 Farmer Information Superhighway.
- Top 10 local sites in India, Indonesia, Russia, Nigeria, China, Brazil, S. Africa, Bangladesh, Mexico, Vietnam
- Wikipedia Zero – Knowledge is for Free! – Free browsing of Wikipedia for Bangladeshis, courtesy of Grameenphone and Opera Mini
- How to disable the LED on a class of Apple internal iSight webcams… “This enables video to be captured without any visual indication to the user” – and a fix
- Silicon Valley Is Living Inside A Bubble Of Tone-Deaf Arrogance – I’m shocked – shocked! – to learn that some Bay Area tech millionaires are arrogant unempathetic arseholes
Porn Filter stupidity
- Official Lib Dem LGBT website blocked by TalkTalk’s porn filter’ – who could have guessed a porn filter would have false positives?
- Sky porn filter cross-site scripting vulnerability
– if Sky can’t even protect its filter against XSS attacks, how much confidence do you have in their ability to keep your list of opt-outs secure?
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