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• The F-word, Episode 3 Episode 3 in which Vadim Makeev and I talk about Web site resilience, HTML nesting rules, masonry layout, Web We Want.
• Web Engine Diversity and Ecosystem Health – a very interesting and thought-provoking piece by Brian Kardell
• People, Power and Technology: The 2020 Digital Attitudes Report
• Remediating sites – “you need to make alterations to a web page that already exists, and where you can’t change the HTML, so your job is to write some bits of JavaScript to poke at the page”. Practical advice on developing & testing this with Greasemonkey from @sil
• Disclosure widgets – details and summary, ARIA widgets for IE11, accordions and accessibility by Adrian Roselli
• The Valuable 500 – “The global movement putting disability on the business leadership agenda. We need 500 national and multinational, private sector corporations to be the tipping-point for change and to unlock the business, social and economic value of people living with disabilities across the world. Because the potential of 1.3 billion should not be ignored.”
• Embedded YouTube and Google Maps � are they accessible? TL;DR: not fully.
• Modern Touch-Friendly Design by Addy Osmani
• The Fastest Google Fonts by Hazza Roberts
• Stack Overflow’s 2020 Developer Survey surveyed 65,000 people. Some interesting nuggets: 46.5% of developers said “HTML/ CSS” is their “most dreaded” language; jQuery is still king, but is slowly losing ground to React.js and Angular year over year.
• Military And Intelligence Personnel Can Be Tracked With The Untappd Beer App
• Find wheelchair accessible places with Google Maps – “People can now turn on an “Accessible Places�� feature to have wheelchair accessibility information more prominently displayed in Google Map”
• Microsoft: we were wrong about open source – pigs fly, hell freezes over.
• Science confirms it: Websites really do all look the same
• Building a physical <blink> tag! – Quarantine finally causes Terence Eden to lose the plot.
• Developer who wrote vanilla HTML+CSS in Notepad declared a witch

• Does masonry belong in the CSS Grid specification? – The Firefox team have experimented with extending the CSS Grid spec to allow Masonry layout. It’s behind a flag in FF Nightly. The @csswg are looking for feedback.
• Responsive masonry layout with CSS grid + vanilla JavaScript (resize viewport!) by the fab Ana Tudor
• Proper VoiceOver support coming soon to Firefox on MacOS – yay.
• Hammer and Nails – “Do you download source and build tools and run the compiler every time you run an app on your desktop? No? Then why is it fine to make web users do it?”. An intemperate rant by flame-haired FOSS Adonis (or is it “Anubis”?), Stuart Langridge.
• Second-guessing the modern web – article looking at whether React-style development which pushes tons of JS to the client to parse and execute is the best thing ever. TL;DR: no.
• The Web We Want Survey Results – What developers want from devtools, browsers and general standards
• 10 Best Free Static Site Generator Tools – another nifty article by Stuart
• The best totally free web fonts & typefaces
• Styling in the Shadow DOM With CSS Shadow Parts
• Bye, Amazon – Inventor of XML, Tim Bray, quits as a VP at Amazon Web Services “in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19”.
• Web Sites as ��Public Accommodation’ under a Pandemic – “If you dodged an accessibility lawsuit because you have physical locations, what does it mean when those physical locations close? What about when the number of locations or the operating hours are reduced?”
• Payments and Authentication: Driving toward a Whole Greater than Parts – W3C
• generic-components -“A collection of generic web components with a focus on Accessibility, Easy to use, Easy to style

“Look, it’s perfectly simple. Go back to work, but don’t use public transport. Travel in a chauffeur-driven ministerial limousine. Use common sense – under no circumstances shake hands with people you know to have the virus. Covid-19 appeared in December, which makes it a Sagittarius, so Taureans and Libras should wear masks. But it also appeared in China, which makes it a Rat, so anyone called Mickey or Roland is advised to wear gloves. We’re following the science, so here’s a graph.

Remember, this is Blighty, not a nation of Moaning Minnies, Fondant Fancies or Coughing Keirs (thanks, Dom!). England expects every interchangeable low-paid worker and old person in a care home to Do Their Duty: let’s just Get Dying Done. God save the Queen, Tally-ho!”

• Link O’ The Week: Looking at coronavirus.data.gov.uk -Web superhero @dracos wrote up how he vastly improved the performance of the UK government Coronavirus data website. Spoiler alert: “The important thing is to have a resilient base layer of HTML and CSS, and then to enhance that with JavaScript.”
• The F-Word podcast, Episode 2 – What’s new in Chrome 81 & Firefox 75, gaps in Safari release notes, webdev glossary, a11y for designers.
• Storage for the web There are many different options for storing data in the browser. Which one is best for your needs? Pete LePage from Google finds out.
• Better Form Inputs for Better Mobile User Experiences
• An introduction to CSS Grid by Chris Ferndinandi
• How does TypeScript work? The bird’s eye view
• Introducing the fastest and most user-friendly content encryption – Hurray, the AMP team have come up with a new DRM mechanism.