Reading List
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- A Detailed Introduction To Custom Elements by Peteypoo Gasston
- All Sites Should Use HTTPS asserts Richard Cunningham. Perhaps. For those that don’t, and you think they should, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has an HTTPS Everywhere extension for Opera, Firefox and Chrome.
- The HTML Landscape – “This document captures the differences between various HTML specifications.”
- Peer5 Downloader – a JS-only embeddable peer-to-peer downloader that uses WebRTC Data Channels, Filesystem API, IndexedDB and other fancy stuff. Caveat emptor: I haven’t tried this – I just think the tech is interesting.
- Separate is Not Equal – “Safeway used to have a separate text-only site. The site was designed to help blind people but it did not have all the information on it that Safeway’s main site had. Now Safeway has one website that everyone can use.”
- The browser cache is Vary broken says Jank Archibald
- Use Cases and Requirements for Web Payments on Mobile – got a use-case that’s not listed? Add it to github, my cuddlesome chum!
- The Unsecured State – A series of excellent investigations by Terence Eden into government sites’ XSS vulnerabilities, 2,000+ NHS Security Vulnerabilities etc
- High Performance Animations – “Modern browsers can animate four things really cheaply: position, scale, rotation and opacity. If you animate anything else, it’s at your own risk”
- Hipster Dev Stack – A curated directory of artisanal development tools that we used to like before they went mainstream
I note that “HTTPS everywhere” depends on servers setup to use HTTPS – so people who run websites still need to provide this. It does however help when a site has HTTPS available, but doesn’t turn it on default for everyone, all the time.