Reading List
- Gold: Progressive Web App: A New Way to Experience Mobile – write-up by Flipkart on how they made Flipkart Lite, an installable web app, with HTML Manifest and Service Worker
- Talking of Service Worker, Making a Simple Site Work Offline with ServiceWorker is a great intro
- Also, My first Service Worker – Jeremy Keith reminisces about his first time
- JavaScript Promise API by David Walsh
- The Cost of Frameworks – International glamourpuss @aerotwist wrote up his excellent @ffconf talk.
- In defense of the Reset button by Raymond Camden
- PSA: don’t use gradient generators by Ana Tudor
- Houdini meeting, Japan – interesting stuff from Apple on declarative “crazy scroll things”, touch and gestures without running script
- Beyond the Rack -“Beyond the Rack re-engages users on the mobile web, increasing revenue per visit by 26% with push notifications”
- The Realities of Installing iBeacon to Scale fledgling problems with the Physical Web
- The ethics of ad blocking written up in Oxford University’s “Practical Ethics”
- Your Unhashable Fingerprints Secure Nothing
- Peering Into The Minds Of The 4.3 Billion Unconnected – “These are people who mostly can’t tell what the X at the top-right of the screen does, or what “sign up means, or what a username and password are”
- How Opera’s video compression technology works – not technical but a maybe-interesting overview
- Talking of which, Opera Mini for iOS beta (featuring video compression) if you’d like to sign up.
- WebGL 2.0 – presentation by Zhenyao Mo, and Ken Russell of Google
- OK Computer: how to work with automation and AI on the web by Peter Gasston
- A better paywall ecosystem with content passes – “There is declining but unfortunately still significant cohort of people who think all content “wants to be free or similar nonsense” by Andrew Betts
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