Reading List
- Web Components punch list – “Considerations for web component and custom control design: If your control has the stuff below covered, excellent! If not then please implement it before shouting to the world about it being the next big thing.” by Steve Faulkner
- Brum Tech Scene – On Monday, Stuart Langridge launched a series of interviews and conversations with interesting people doing interesting things in the Birmingham tech community. First is Simon Jenner, Head of Oxygen Startups and co-founder of Silicon Canal. He videoed me, too; coming soon.
- Who is “Joe Developer”? asks @johnfoliot. The background is the “living standards” vs “W3C snapshot” holy war. It’s a good question.
- What next for HTML? – now HTML5 is a W3C Proposed Recommendation, how should the language be further developed? Put your questions to editor Robin Berjon for an HTML5 Doctor interview
- The URL mess on the competing standards for defining how URLs work, by Larry Masinter
- Chromium: Web Application Manifest implementation chugs along (@marcosc & I wrote an explainer)
- All You Need To Know About Vertical-Align – “vertical-align can be a real scumbag sometimes. I set myself the target to clarify the behavior once and for all”
- Opera Mini to be pre-installed on all upcoming Micromax Android devices available in India, Russia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal
- Getting Started with Sass by Laura Kalbag
- iOS 8 and iPhone 6 for web developers and designers: next evolution for Safari and native webapps – they kept it quiet, but there’s a new phone and OS from FruitCo. Maximiliano Firtman does some testing so you don’t have to.
- Life Changed Much? – “Occasionally, new technology changes lives. But mostly it doesn’t.” by Tim Bray
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