Reading List
- Named WebSockets – Dynamic binding, peer management and local network discovery for WebSockets. Spec and proof-of-concept implementation by Rich Tibbett
- The Permissions API: W3C Unofficial Draft. “man, it’s not ready to even be looked at” says editor Mounir. But it is being thought about and worked on.
- Opera Mini 9 for iOS compresses video as well as text and images. Free and gratis.
- Opera Mini on your Chromebook for fun and bandwidth – fun hack to get Opera Mini running on a Chromebook
- Responsive Images in Practice – masterful article by @etportis showing the kind of data savings using responsive images gives your visitors. And data savings = speed = conversions.
- Blink: Srcset resource selection use a geometric mean to determine resource. Previously, Blink chose the srcset image that was bigger than the allowed space; now it chooses the one closest to that number of pixels and – if it’s smaller – upscales it slightly, reducing download size.
- pseudo-element “alt” property. New to me:
-webkit-altCSS property sets “alt text” for icons in generated content. Apple’s good guy, James Craig asked for it to be added to CSS draft. - JAWS and NVDA tests – Russ Weakley asks “Ever wondered what pages sound like in JAWS and NVDA? Here are a wide range of simple tests.”
- Progressive enhancement: How to create pages that work regardless of browser capability by gov.uk
- A Comparative Evaluation of Current HTML5 Web Video Implementations (PDF). “differences between browser interfaces and show that even simple software solutions may still need third-party plugins in today’s browsers”
- A New Way to Test Internet Explorer on OS X, iOS and Android. Needs a Microsoft account (2 mins to set up), better than 45 days of virtual machine arseing-about. Seems to be a bug rendering webfonts, though (but it’s early days)
- Form Usability: Getting ‘Address Line 2’ Right – interesting look at this usability micro-subject.
- Proposed Draft Unicode Technical Report #51: UNICODE EMOJI – “Unicode Version 8.0 is adding 5 symbol modifier characters that provide for a range of skin tones for human emoji.”
- Windows 93
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