Reading List
Ooh,ooh, it’s the 98th Reading List (including last week’s Device Detection vs Responsive Web Design-themed list). Will I get to 100 before 2015?
- M dot or RWD. Which is faster? – initial research on the top 1,000 mobile websites concludes that “m dot” sites are 50% slower for time to first byte, and “RWD sites are VERY competitive on Visually Complete and SpeedIndex scores. The median values are within 5% for both metrics. Even though it appears that RWD is faster, there is enough fluctuation in the data that we should probably call it a dead heat.”
- Iterators gonna iterate – Iterators. They’re like ES6 velociraptors. And they’re in Opera, Chrome and Firefox. Jank Architect has the low-down.
- What’s new in Opera 26 for developers. For consumers, DuckDuckGo can be set as a default search engine, bookmarks can be shared and the Linux build is now fully stable.
- Chinese Mobile App UI Trends – “I started writing a list in my notebook of all the things that are different between apps here and those I’m accustomed to using and creating back in the US.”
- Google leaving SysApps – Encouraging news: Google leaves w3C sysapps Working Group (which is focused on packaged apps) to concentrates on enhancing *web* apps. (I don’t like packaged apps.)
- Mobile Web is retail’s big winner and loser for holiday shopping – “In an analysis of 46 million page views … mobile Web accounted for 97 percent of retail sales from mobile devices on Black Friday while apps accounted for just 3 percent”.
- Introduction to Service Worker by Google’s Matt Gaunt
- Codemotion 2014: Entrevista a Bruce Lawson – video interview by Alba Roza Suárez and me about Extensible Web, and Opera’s role in browser market
- Beating the Odds — How We got 25% Women Speakers for JSConf EU 2012
- Are apps destroying the web? – Opera’s CEO, Lars “Bollywood” Boilesen discusses the question on Indian TV
- The following content is not acceptable from the 1st December 2014 – “Pornography is the canary in the coalmine of free speech: it is the first freedom to die. If this assault on liberty is allowed to go unchallenged, other freedoms will fall as a consequence” – a lawyer on the ridiculous new UK censorship laws. Gotta love government small enough to fit in your bedroom.
- Typeset In The Future: The Alien Edition – barkingly thorough post about typography and semiotics in Ridley Scott’s Alien