Reading List
- ios 9 Safari / Web App Viewport Problem (expands to fit all elements in view) – apparently,
shrink-to-fit=noin the viewport meta reverts to iOS behaviour. - Easy content organisation with HTML5 – Steve Faulkner’s refresher on using HTML5 structural elements to define page regions, in which he uses long words like a native English speaker
- Screen Reader strategy survey – Heydon “Interesting Nuggets” Pickiering hopes to get qualitative data on how screenreader users approach “a new, unfamiliar web page, for which you have no prior knowledge or expectations”
- Reactive Design – Collection of design insights about perceived speed
- Script-Based Web Accessibility draft proposal for a set of User Intention Events that build on ARIA to extend accessibility functionality to complex, scripted web applications, by Cynthia Shelley of Microsoft
- Adapting without assumptions – “We need better ways to adapt content to the user’s current conditions.” Yoav Weiss writes a LongTweet (“a blogpost”) about it.
- New HTML5 Player beta trial for BBC iPlayer – there’s the door, Flash. And you, standalone BBC Media Player app on Android devices.
- List of BBC web pages which have been removed from Google’s search results and BBC’s policies on archiving and deletion
- You Mustn’t Criticise The Status Quo At A Hackday wise words from Terence Eden
- The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites – “Visiting the home page of Boston.com every day for a month would cost the equivalent of about $9.50 in data usage just for the ads.”
- China Online Retail Forecast, 2014 To 2019 – Forrester forecases $1 trillion per annum by 2019
- Naked capitalism – interesting (SFW) Economist article on modern web porn business
- What I learned spending five hours in the Apple Store for my iPhone 6s – chilling tales of terrible suffering from outside the San Francisco Apple store. Where’s the Red Cross when it’s needed?
- Talking of which… Let’s Sell Some Shit To These Millennials
- And finally, Time magazine reports that 11% of Americans Think HTML Is an STD. In my days, we called computer-clap “VDU”.
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