Reading List
- Research with blind users on mobile devices by gov.uk
- Responsive images: Smaller page sizes with the picture element and WebP – stats on how Mike Babb reduced page weight by 70% for smaller devices, using responsive images
- Apple Pay on the Web – Apple to W3C: “I anticipate that we as a Working Group can and will make the Payment Request API into a solid, cross-browser framework for payments”
- Serverless Data Sync in Web Apps with Bit Torrent – cool article by Paul Kinlan
- Progressive Web Apps in Nigeria and Kenya: a Double Interview – lots of stats about how much data costs, and how much is saved by PWAs
- Making progressive web apps even better: ambient badging and “pop into browser – Opera Labs build shows you when a site is a PWA, and a mechanism to expose the current URL
- The Web App “Discovery Problem” by Remy Sharp
- The Progress of Web Apps – PWAs on Windows, by Jacob Rossi
- PWAify – “Experimental project to convert your PWA (Progressive Web App) into a cross-platform Electron app. Brings PWAs to your desktop.”
- The Right Way To Ask Users For iOS Permissions (or any permissions, really)
- Using the HTML lang attribute by Léonie Watson. Here’s a 7 second demo by Patrick Lauke of a screenreader reading French text without, then with, the correct lang attribute.
- Over the edge? – Opera’s power saver mode extends battery life 43 mins longer than Microsoft Edge and 1 hr 1 min longer than Chrome
- Ad blocking, web push notifications, site settings come to Opera for Android (the Chromium-based full browser)
- Velocity Conference talk about Opera and ad blocking – my talk with video and slides
- Some Advice for Companies Fighting Ad Blockers
- Free Wi-Fi has Soweto surfing in the streets – “Our aim is to make the internet available to everyone, regardless of their background”
- Meanwhile… China’s Great Firewall is Harming Innovation, [Chinese] Scholars Say “”Our nation’s mind is caged, say Hu Xingdou, an economics professor”
- The Best and Worst Internet Experience in the World – MIT Tech Review report on the Web in China. “Among the country’s roughly 690 million Internet users, 620 million now go online using a mobile device. “
- The Philippines is Now the Fastest Growing Smartphone Market in ASEAN – 20% YoY growth; local vendors dominant
- ways ASEAN can accelerate its digital revolution
- Myanmar’s digital revolution BBC radio’s vignette on smartphone use in Myanmar, where SIM costs went from $2000 to $1.50
- Why mobile money is a game-changer for African entrepreneurs – “mobile money is slowly moving beyond the person-to-person arena into the business-to-business and business-to-consumer spaces”
- Pornhub launches explicit audio for the visually impaired
- The Web is for everyone new documentary on its invention
- Heavy Metal and Natural Language Processing – What are the “most metal” words to use in songs?
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