Reading List
- On PPK’s moratorium on new browser features by me ‘n’ my homies
- If we stand still, we go backwards – Jank Architect’s take on the moratorium
- SLICE: the web – Paul “The new Cilla” Kinlan on the positive aspects of the web as a platform for users and developers
- Fast-forwarding the Web Platform another take on PPK’s article, by Nicolas Bevacqua
- Mobile Web Isn’t Broken, Yet and another, by Mariano Viola
- Ramblings on New Browser Features, Interoperability, Craft, and the Future of the Web – Aaron Gustafson of Microsoft weighs in too
- Considering the Users of Internet Standards IETF draft by Mark Nottingham (him off the W3C Tag) “mandates end users as the highest priority constituency for Internet standards.”
- Say no to 10 years for file sharing – @OpenRightsGroup petition
- BLCK4777 by p01 – Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015. Turn on speakers and wait for a few seconds. Made by Opera’s Mathieu ‘p01’ Henri
- This App Is Cashing In On Giving The World Free Data – “Mobile data costs up to 10% of a person’s average wage in Brazil, Eagle says, and more than a third of someone’s income in Africa, while in the U.S. it’s more like 1% to 2%”
- The picture element is happening say Your Friends In Redmond
- Opera 31 released: CSS multi-column layout, scrollingElement, ES6 computed property names, Web Audio API++, and more. For consumers, it starts up to 70% faster – great for those on slower/ older hardware
- Modern CSS Layout, power and responsibility by Rachel Andrew
- Pointer Events now in Firefox Nightly – so Opera, Chrome, Microsoft, Firefox. Who’s missing, I wonder?
- Google+: I’ve concluded that it’s time for a “pivot – “can now focus on doing what it’s already doing quite well”. Note *quite* well. Oof. I never used G+; the way it tied to YouTube was like 2 dogs stuck after sex – neither could move properly and it was very undignified
- Inside the failure of Google+, a very expensive attempt to unseat Facebook has deeper analysis, but no dogsex similes
- Non-blocking Asynchronous JSON.parse Using The Fetch API
- Behavior of <iframe> in vertical writing mode – interesting question now the web is finally getting better support for non-latin scripts
- Tying ecosystems through browsers by David Baron of Mozilla
- Hackers manipulate self-aiming rifle into shooting different targets – your occasional reminder that Internet of Things security is lamentably poor yet vital because, unlike web sites, things can kill you
- How your phone’s battery life can be used to invade your privacy
- Building a smart meeting room w/ LoRa and Physical Web
- Mozilla FlyWeb – “Instead of phones interacting only with the cloud, they can discover and interact with electronics around them that are running empty web clients, such as TV’s, projectors, game consoles, etc. The electronics come to life when connected to phones. The key here is that either the phones serve web apps to these electronics, or the electronics serve web apps to the phones.” (More: Fly Web – A Unified Strategy for the Web on Smart Devices)
- Android Fragmentation Visualized (AKA “Android Strength & Diversity Visualised”) – “We have seen 24,093 distinct devices download our app in the past few months.”
- Making and Breaking the Web With CSS Gradients by Mike “Chicken Legend” Taylr (Mozilla)
- The adblocking revolution is months away (with iOS 9) with trouble for advertisers, publishers and Google
- Is polyfilling future web APIs a good idea? and Brian Kardell’s reply (TL;DR – “prollyfills are better”)
- Advanced CSS filters
- Position an element relatively to another element from anywhere in the DOM – Web Platform Incubator group: CSS feature request. (As requested by Matt “GRRARRRRGGGHH” Wilcox, 7 years ago.)
- Confidence of Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists hits two-year low – “Silicon Valley’s venture capital community is starting to get a little bummed out”. My heart bleeds for them, it really does. I’m going to start a kickstarter to send them some flowers. Who’s with me?
- Sorry Soylent dudes: After the revolution the clueless tech elite will be doomed “Technology is revolutionary, it has changed our lives for the better, but the boosting and veneration of the giant babies of Silicon Valley, both the ones that live there and the ones spawned by its ideology, is a net negative for humanity.”
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