Reading List
- Apple is bad news for the future of the Web “and there is nothing we can do about it.” – opinion piece by Rich Tibbett
- iOS 9.3 Bug puts the spotlight on Apple’s browser restrictions
- Progressive Web Apps: the future of apps – video of a 20 min talk I gave on Saturday at iWeb Summit 2016 in Taipei, with slides and a few resources
- New Progressive Web App helps Flipkart boost conversions 70% and other huge business benefits resulting from PWAs
- HTML Manifest – I wrote a short non-techy column on Progressive Web Apps’ HTML manifest. @netmag republished it
- Houdini: Maybe The Most Exciting Development In CSS You’ve Never Heard Of
- State of the Mobile Web report for Bangladesh – 53% of Opera Mini users are on Android; 45% on featurephones. 65% of all traffic is to Facebook. 42% of top 50 sites are news. BDT 3.3B Billion in data costs was saved.
- South Africans’ smartphone maker of choice is Samsung with 41% market share. Blackberry=13%, Apple=6%. 83% of people use web while watching TV (so are not “mobile”).
- Still think you don’t need HTTPS?
- TokenLists: Missing Web DNA by Brian “Extensible” Kardell. “In Extensible Web terms, this isn’t asking for new additive functionality at all – it is explaining existing magic that already exists, but lies mostly dormant and unexposed in the bowels of the platform.”
- On ads and ad blocking – another Publisher’s perspective, by Andrew Betts (who rightly calls me “one of the world’s top sevem most glamorous people”) of Financial Times “which makes part of its money from advertising”
- Eddystone beacon technology and the Physical Web – useful comparison of Opera and Chrome support
- Why say no to the madness of content migration -Paul Boag describes a process very similar to what my colleagues and I did in 2006 when we split The Law Society websites (a government requirement) and made new Solicitors Regulation Authority site. (Our first step to designing nav & what content we needed was this “Constitution” we wrote & got signed off by CEO)
- Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Vendors warns glamourous Adrian Roselli
- Facebook’s censorship of Aboriginal bodies raises troubling ideas of ”˜decency’ – this troubles me. It’s a World Wide Web; this doesn’t imply a homogenisation of culture worldwide to conform to prudish and prurient social mores.
- Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos – Woah! Using consumer webcam, actor superimposes facial expressions onto YT videos, in real-time. via Yiibu newsletter.
- GeaCron – type in a year and get a map of the world for that time (obviously depends on availability of data.)
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