Reading List
- The Building Blocks Of Progressive Web Apps – very nice overview by Ada Rose Edwards
- What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App? by the other PWA (Progressive Web Alex), @slightlylate
- PWA Performance by Steve Souders – “a web developer’s (and user’s) dream come true: a fast experience even while offline.”
- How are progressive web apps making the African web better? – Andreas Bovens went to find out.
- Plugin Evaluation – date pickers, carousels, modals, tabs, accordions etc evaluated for size, accessibility, dependancies etc.
- MinMaxing: Understanding vMin and vMax in CSS
- The relationship between payment apps and service workers – Opera’s Tommy Thorsen has some suggestions.
- SVG 2 Candidate Recommendation 15 Sept. What’s new.
- Accessibility Object Model – early draft, unofficial spec (editors from Mozila, Micossoft, Google, Apple)
- Intent to Implement: Shape Detection API – “Photos and images constitute the largest chunk of the Web, and many include recognisable features, such as human faces or QR codes. Hardware manufacturers have long been providing support for such operations given their (high) computational complexity. The Shape Detection API allows accessing these hardware-accelerated detectors where available.”
- Generic Sensor API (Working Draft) aims to “promote consistency across sensor APIs, enable advanced use cases thanks to performant low-level APIs, and increase the pace at which new sensors can be exposed to the Web”
- Hospitals Try Giving Patients a Dose of VR – we’ll see more non-gaming use of Virtual Reality when WebVR hits browsers
- Introducing the WebVR API – presentation by Ada Rose Edwards
- Oh shit, git! – a plain English guide to getting out of common Git messes