Reading List
This week I’ve been reading lots of stuff about the (possible) future of the Web: Virtual and Augmented Reality, Context-Awareness and other interesting stuff.
- Progressive Web Apps: The definitive collection of resources by me and Shwetank Dixit
- The State of Responsive 3D Shapes – by the splendid Ana Tudor
- CSS position: sticky returning to Chromium (with a different implementation from the one that was removed before)
- Custom Elements: an ecosystem still being worked out – “I would like to see a world where we invert the control of the framework creator and give it back to the platform and the web developer.” by Paul Kinlan
- Why I won’t be using Fetch API in my apps – “people should use tools that abstract the low level layer and give them more high level API”.
- When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China – “WeChat is actually more of a portal, a platform, and even a mobile operating system”. Also, Why WeChat City Services Is A Game-Changing Move For Smartphone Adoption.
- HTML, CSS & VR – “WebGL WebVR is more like Flash” -thoughts from @joshcarpenter on HTML+CSS for WebVR (& cool slides)
- New Challenges AR will pose for the Web – “we need to define standards for platform agnostic AR software and take steps in implementing them.”
- The Storage Standard “defines an API for persistent storage and quota estimates, as well as the platform storage architecture.”
- Using the aria-owns attribute by Léonie Watson
- Researchers Just Created The Most Amazing Lip-Reading Software – “Average experienced lip reader performance is only 52%. LipNet goes up to 93%
- Fighting Ebola with JavaScript – Building an offline-first app for health workers in the field with limited connectivity
- State of the Mobile Web Africa, 2016 – Opera report full of stats ‘n’ InfoGraffix
- How Internet access could help lift women and girls out of poverty – “an action plan to connect 350 million women and girls in the poorest countries by 2020, resulting in spin off benefits for everyone.”
- Chinese language on the web
- Are Chinese Websites Too Complex? asks Yunnuo Cheng and Jakob Nielsen.
- The smart security behind the GB Smart Metering System – I’m no expert on IoT or security, but this looks well thought-out. IoT manufacturers, take note!
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I’ve been following position: sticky for something like 3.5 years now and seeing all the commits on the Chromium bug for it come in has been like Christmas for me.