Reading List
Standards and tech
- reference for whether changing any given CSS property triggers layout, paint or composite by Paul Lewis
- The Web Manifest specification – HTML5 Doctor article by me and Mozilla’s Magical Mr Marcos. It’s an important spec, and a brilliantly witty article full of poetry and erudition.
- Let’s Talk About RTL – a useful guide to making sites with Arabic, Persian and Hebrew text by Ahmad Alfy
- W3C Web Payments – an overview Manu’s actually responding to the Bad Voltage podcast discussion, but even outside that context, this is an excellent overview of the initiative. Scroll down for more comments from Stuart Langridge and yours truly, too.
- filing bugs – Steve “Bogan” Faulkner’s shit is solid in this article about how to file browser bugs
- Understanding SVG Coordinate Systems & Transformations (Part 2) The transform Attribute by Sara “no sleep til I’ve explained EVERYTHING” Soueidan
- How we make RWD sites load fast as heck by Scott Jehl. Long, detailed, excellent read.
- The Accessibility Tree: A Training Guide – “a single comprehensive explanation of what these layers of accessibility are, and how developers can recognize them during the process of development”
- An Alphabet of Accessibility Issues – a human, humane listing of people not disabilities by @kirabug
- From the Department of “No shit, Sherlock”, The Majority Of Today’s App Businesses Are Not Sustainable
- Why the Security of USB Is Fundamentally Broken – “These problems can’t be patched. We’re exploiting the very way that USB is designed.
- Animals Sitting on Capybaras – you’ll never guess what this is about.
Freedom corner
- New law in Russia: bloggers with more than 3,000 daily readers must register with the mass media regulator (BBC)
- Blasphemy in the Digital Age – Mapping the cases in Pakistan where people have been accused to have committed ‘blasphemy’ on the Internet.
Lonely hearts’ corner
Readers who are single may find this 80s dating video helpful. Invite me to the wedding, please.
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