Reading List
- Opera's work to reduce Chromium's memory use - I wrote up what we've been doing to make Blink better on lower-spec devices.
- Apple's consolidated feedback on Web Components - and my thoughts on this.
- Web Components Viewpoint from the Microsoft Guy
- Does responsive web design make you more money? for the total bread-heads out there, man.
- IndexedDB and Limits IE - it silently fails when the limit is reached. "this is still better (kinda) than mobile Safari, so, yeah, there's that. π"
- Thoughts on migrating to a secure Web by David Baron of Mozilla.
- WebP Images & Performance. Pornelski strongly disagrees - see his blogpost How to compare images fairly.
- WebRTC Troubleshooter
- Idea: Extending native DOM prototypes without collisions by Lea Verou
- Google's 'mobilegeddon' will shake up search results - "The update to the way Google ranks search results will take into account how mobile-friendly a website is."
- Extensible Web Summit - slidedecks and cut-out-n-keep pics of your fave extensible megastars
- Electronics for the JavaScript Developer using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE
- Canada Loves the Poop Emoji - "A new report on worldwide emoji usage finds a new kind of national character." TL;DR: Canada π π©, US π π, Russia π β, France π π. (according to Tiffany Brown, "In the U.S., π is emoji slang for penis, which makes that report all the funnier".)
- We put a chip in it! It was just a dumb thing. Then we put a chip in it. Now it's a smart thing.
- How to pronounce hexadecimal. Officially, 0xBBBB is pronounced "bibbity-bee bitey bibbity-bee
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