Reading List
- Flexbox: changes since the previous spec
- Don’t use <picture> (most of the time) by Jason Grigsby. TL;DR: if you just want resolution switching (smaller image to non-“retina” devices, big image only to high-dpi screens), just use
<img src="lores.jpg" srcset="hires.jpg 2x"> - Using ServiceWorker in Chrome today and, indeed, other Chromium browsers. Excellent article by Jank Architect.
- Better @font-face with Font Load Events by Zach Leatherman
- The initial work for Manifest in Chromium M39 is done, and will hopefully be in Firefox OS 2.2. (Explainer article.)
- A Greater Voice for Individuals in W3C: Tell Us What You Would Value
- Primary Key issue on iOS8 implementation of IndexedDb. “when you have two different object stores in the same indexeddb, primary key values appear to be “shared” across all stores.” hurray.
- Accessibility issues with html5 <footer>: not exposed; should be exposed with an IA2 footer role and xml-roles/implicit aria role of contentinfo in some circumstances – fixed in Chromium.
- Brum Tech Scene – That nice @sil came round to my house and videoed me answering his questions about the Birmingham tech scene and biscuits.
- When can a High Court grant an injunction to trade mark holders against ISPs to block access to “infringing websites? – Open Rights Group on an important test-case
- Support the independents “If you use a product that has a free version and a paid version, paying out for that “pro or commercial license even if perhaps you could get away with not doing so, puts cash into the company, helps to ensure the survival and development of the product” says Rachel Andrew.
- LULZ: “JSONx is an IBM® standard format to represent JSON as XML.” – for those who want the joys of JSON with the piquant frisson of XML. Who doesn’t?
- EXTRA LULZ: Even Apple didn’t want my iPhone 6 Plus – unusual satire piece from The Verge, spoofing a cryPhone user whose emotional rollercoaster (caused by the new device being slightly bigger than his other one, which is why he bought it) culminates with the hilarious “I spent all this money on something that I thought would make me happy, and instead I felt like trash”. Genius.
Buy "Calling For The Moon", my debut album of songs I wrote while living in Thailand, India, Turkey. (Only £2, on Bandcamp.)