Reading list
- TOP OF THE POPS THIS WEEK: Facebook and the media: united, they attack the web – a jolly good piece on Facebook Instant by Baldur Bjarnason
- Media Session spec “enables web developers to obtain different levels of platform media focus and implicit access to platform media keys such as hardware keys found on keyboards, headsets, remote controls, and software keys found in notification areas and on lock screens of mobile devices.” It’s being prototyped by Opera, and we intend to send a Blink ‘intend to implement’ soon.
- Fixing the scrollTop bug
- text-rendering: optimizeLegibility is Decadent and Depraved by Matttttt Marquis, world expert on depraved decadence
- ARIA Examples – Some practical ARIA examples to enhance your application accessibility by Heydon Pickering, webmaster of all the haystacks in Bury St Somerset O’Groats
- Art-Directing SVG Images With The viewBox Attribute: How-To, Notes, Tips and Why We Need A viewBox Property in CSS by Sara Soueiadan, the world’s favourite Lebanese SVG blogger.
- What one may find in robots.txt – snooping around files disallowed in robots.txt by the Israeli government and others.
- Adults’ media use and attitudes (PDF) – UK communications regulator (OFCOM) report “on adults’ media use and attitudes … with a particular focus on online use and attitudes”. Chapter 1 compares 2014 against the first report in 2005.
- A Qualitative Study of Internet Non-Use in Great Britain and Sweden (PDF) (2012)
- Web Components vs Extract Widget patent – “Google Polymer and Mozilla X-Tags, are reusing the concepts of the patent” allegedly.
- In Defence Of WordPress – “I think there’s far too little appreciation for everything WordPress does.”
- Let’s Keep Helping Molly Holzschlag – funding drive for medication and living expenses for Molly who’s recovering after 2 rounds of chemo.
- The best dinosaur
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