Reading List 232
- Link O’ The Week: Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution For the Web – a very interesting proposal by Apple WebKit engineer @johnwilander, already an experimental feature in Safari Technology Preview 82+.
- Cake or death: AMP and the worrying power dynamics of the web by Andrew Betts. Excellent read.
- W3C and WHATWG to work together to advance the open Web platform – Winners will be web developers who don’t have competing specs claiming to be The Truth. And if WHATWG will take some of the accessibility & authoring advice from W3C specs, we all win. *If*.
- reducing motion with the picture element – do this if you use animated GIFs
- CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner. (Explainer)
- Meet the Flexbox Inspector – avoid the “Flexbox Pit of Despair” with the new Firefox devtools
- A Model for WordPress Accessibility by hunky Uncle @aardrian
- Learn Docker in 12 Minutes – nice YouTube video introducing Docker
- Compiling C to WebAssembly without Emscripten by Das Surma
- First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records – Insurance company makes 885 million bank account numbers, statements, mortgage & tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images available to anyone with a Web browser with no authentication. Oops.
- It’s the middle of the night. Do you know who your iPhone is talking to? – “Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week”, using 1.5 GB of data a month
Want my reading lists sent straight to your inbox? Sign up and Mr Mailchimp will send it your way!
good one.
Editing HTML and CSS code can be done without any specific tools. In fact, if you have a simple text editor, you
are good to go. However, just because you can do something doesn’t mean it is the best way to do it – and that
applies to web development as well.
best text editor for web
designers 2019