Reading List
- Installable Web Apps and Add to Home screen released this week in Opera 32 for Android. Also in Chrome.
- lessons from the ad blocker trenches by Yan Zhou of W3C TAG
- CSS stacking contexts: What they are and how they work by Tiffany Brown, who’s one of my favourite tech authors because she explains very clearly. And also because she rocks.
- Use Only One <main> on a Page – Adrian Roselli lists the reasons why. Number 2 will make you cry!
- Back to the :roots – “I’ll try to show a few ways how you can make the cascade be your friend and maybe reduce the need of overriding and thus encounter less fighting with specificity.”
- How to display threaded discussions on the web by Rian Van Der Merwe
- What forces layout / reflow – JS properties or methods, that trigger the browser to synchronously calculate the style and layout, a common performance bottleneck” by Paul Irish
- Creating Cel Animations With SVG By Heydon Pickering
- This single mom is fighting to protect Pakistani women from cyberbullying – Tech in Asia profile of Nighat Dad
- Graphic Presentation – Willard Cope Brinton’s 1939 book (a sort of proto-Edward Tufte) free to download
- A New Caption That Works for Every New Yorker Cartoon
Buy "Calling For The Moon", my debut album of songs I wrote while living in Thailand, India, Turkey. (Only £2, on Bandcamp.)