Reading List
- GOLD: Sex, Houdini and the Extensible Web – how the principles of the Extensible Web Manifesto speed up iteration of web standards, and how Project Houdini is bringing those principles to CSS (Disclosure: I commissioned and edited this.)
- Trainspotting: Firefox 38 – Yay for our chums at Firefox for the release of FF38 with <img srcset> and <picture> support. CUDDLES.
- An Introduction to Responsive Images ”” DrupalJam – a 30 min video of ME!! introducing Responsive Images
- The state of web components – a useful round-up of the blockers at the moment, by Mozilla’s Wilson Page
- Chat Wars – Microsoft vs. AOL – fascinating archaeological essay by one of the MSN Messenger Service programmers about the war of the protocols
- An Introduction To Graphical Effects in CSS by Sara Soueidan
- Mozilla adds -webkit prefix emulation to select sites in Firefox – I stand by my 2012 opinion of vendor prefixes.
- schema.org 2.0 for all you taxonomisin’ microdata/ RDFa/ JSON-LD-lovin’ ontologists out there
- Eric Meyer on the past, present and future of CSS
- Read and learn with Opera: Access free books and math materials from Worldreader and Microsoft Math on Opera Mini – Opera’s worked with worldreader to bring 15,000 books free to phones, even 10 year old feature phones. As a literature graduate, I approve!
- Nantucket: an accidental limerick detector – Natural Language Processing & tweaking Python algorithms to find accidental limericks in text
- Holograms used to berate people illegally parking in disabled bays – “A non-profit group in Russia is attempting to use hologram technology to teach people who wrongfully park in disabled bays a lesson by projecting an image of a disabled person explaining their difficulties”.
- Oh! Selector ♪ a ukulele homage to selectors by W3C’s @ourmaninjapan (with new rough’n’tough beard)
- Incognitube – The least watched Youtube videos
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