Reading List 229
- Link O’ The Week: Art Direction For The Web Using CSS Shapes by Andy Clarke
- Enriching Search Results Through Structured Data – SURPRISE! Structured data and semantic markup help SEO. Now with BIZ NUMBERS from Google. With unjustified recommendation to use JSON-LD, which I’ll blog about when I get more info about why they prefer that to HTML5 microdata
- Inclusively Hidden – methods of hiding content and the accessibility impacts of each, newly-updated by Scott O’Hara
- CSS Spatial Navigation Level 1 – “a general model for navigating the focus using the arrow keys, as well as related CSS, JavaScript features and Events”. N.B. Draft spec only.
- Why I’ve stopped exporting defaults from my JavaScript modules by Nicholas Zakas
- Accessibility Events – on the problems Apple’s choice to detect Assistive Technology use can cause, by Mat Marquis
- What JavaScript can learn from CSS – a nice 26 min talk by Jed Watson
- A history of the HTML slot element – “illustrates the complexity of producing standards, the importance of talking with people face-to-face, and the value of compromise.”
- Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz: Car hire biz demands $32m+ for ‘defective’ cyber-revamp – botched website redesign. Not responsive, no design system, poor code, and more.
- Front-end Developer Handbook 2019 – a really cool resource if you know someone who’s starting out, or if you need to explain to friends/ family what you do!
- Taxing social media in Africa – governments taxing access to web services makes it even harder for the less well-off to get online.
- WELCOME TO THE CAGE CAGE – “This is a VR simulation of what it’s like to be trapped in a cage and forced to watch Nic Cage movies.”
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3 Responses to “ Reading List 229 ”
I’m pretty sure Google prefers JSON-LD over microdata because it’s easier for them to stealborrow the data for their own use in that format. When I was working on a screen-scraping project a few years ago, I found that to be the case. Since then, I’ve come to believe that schema.org is really about making it easier for the big guys to profit from data collection instead of helping site owners improve their SEO. But I’m probably just being a conspiracy theorist. 😎
I think the same as Andrew. Excelent (y)
Switched to named exports last year and haven’t looked back. Much saner.