Reading List
- News of the week: Why we are suing Apple for better HTML5 support in iOS? – Nexedi: “we are launching a lawsuit against Apple so that developers of Web browsers with better HTML5 support than Apple’s Webkit can publish their applications on Apple Appstore”
- Will we be flattening our HTML for CSS Grids? by Chris Coyier.
- A (not so) short note on ARIA to the rescue – by Steve Faulkner
- Johnson & Johnson Warns Insulin Pump Owners They Could Be Killed By Hackers – Sometimes I think “things” in “Internet of Things” is a recursive acronym: “Things Having Internet, No Goddam Security”
- Related: English man spends 11 hours trying to make cup of tea with Wi-Fi kettle. I’m thinking of writing a book on the Usability of IoT called “Don’t make my drink?”.
- A couple of good long(-ish) think pieces: Nolan Lawson’s Progressive enhancement isn’t dead, but it smells funny and a nuanced, compelling reply by Laurie Voss: Web development has two flavors of graceful degradation.
- structure.exposed – View a website’s skeleton by resetting all styling to browser default.
- SpeedPerception: Perceived UX of Web Apps in the Wild – at what point do users decide if a page is fast, or not (& thus potentially bail)? Preliminary results from stats collected from 5444 users doing the SpeedPerception challenge.
- How to profit from your data and beat Facebook at its own game – “We unwittingly give away personal details whenever we go online – so why not take charge and even earn from it? A new wave of personal data services will help
- New Study Explains Why Comic Sans Font So Hilarious
- Fuck You Startup World – a satisfying sweary rant (here’s my own similarly sweary rant on Disruption Worship)