Reading List
- HTTPS is Hard – Steve Workman of Yell on how they got yell.com onto HTTPS, with its 20 years of code, tech stack and adtech. Over 7 months.
- How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network – “Downloading a typical app with 20 MB APK can take more than 30 minutes on a 2G network, and the download is likely to fail before completion, due to the flaky nature of the network.”
- 2G Network Issues observed while in India by Bryan McQuade (Google)
- pwa.rocks – crowd-sourced list of good progressive web apps
- The Holy Grail Layout with CSS Grid
- Free VPN integrated in Opera for better online privacy (Desktop, Alpha version)
- Opera beta update with new video pop out – detatch a video from a page so it’s always on top while browsing elsewhere. If it doesn’t work on your megafave site, please leave a comment. xxx
- Scroll Anchoring a Chromium experiment that “keeps track of where you are on the page and prevents anything that causes a reflow from disrupting your position on the page”. Jolly good stuff.
- Canonical content and AMP Andrew Betts of FT and W3C TAG asks “we’ve spent the last few years gradually moving away from m., and we’re now heading back towards that territory. Is this a conscious recognition that One-Responsive-To-Rule-Them-All was a bad idea?”
- Interview with Håkon Wium Lie – “If we hadn’t developed CSS, we could have ended up with the web being a giant fax machine
- 10 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings
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Except, apparently, when your device is a 2014 Moto G running Android 6. When they will not even let you download the application from the Google App Store.
When I was still on Android 5 there was a period Facebook would no longer update on my phone and Lite sounded like a possible solution. But apparently that’s just no allowed? Come on Facebook, either you have made an app that can run on all of Android, or you didn’t. If you didn’t, don’t make bold claims.