Reading List
- GOLD: grunt-respimg A responsive image workflow for optimizing and resizing your images
- Increasing engagement with Web App install banners and Push Notifications on the Open Web – bringing the web closer to native. This is jolly good news from the Chrome team. (I’m one of the team that is working on this in Opera, too.)
- js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read by Tantek Çelik – “Pages that are empty without JS: dead to history (archive-org), unreliable for search results (despite any search engine claims of JS support, check it yourself), and thus ignorable.”
- Accessible Drag and Drop with Multiple Items by James “Brothercake” Edwards
- Blink has a new memory team, to ensure that memory is used more efficiently. Sigbjorn from Opera’s on the team.
- MySpace what went wrong The site was a massive spaghetti-ball mess’ (by former VP of online marketing)
- UX Tactics To Make Slow Things Seem Faster – nothing earth-shattering here, but an interesting list.
- Brand Simplicity vs. Our Innovation Complex – “while consumers claim interest in complex innovations (“Bring on the shiny new objects!), they actually buy simpler products”
- Apple has a software problem by Matt Wilcox (and bonus follow-up.)
- Fifty Shades Generator – Snorem ipsum – goodbye! Spice up your comps with the “50 Shades generator”. NSFW, obvs.
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The article about js;dr really does worry me.
For example how many years until the CDNs for all these Javascript libraries stop working ?
Most developers don’t seem to include a fallback in their code either.
So it will be like geocities, at some point a large number of sites will just be gone or at least stop working.