Reading List 251
- Link o’the week: In-Browser Performance Linting With Feature Policies by Timotei Catflap
- A Complete Guide to Links and Buttons by Chris Coyier
- Declarative Shadow DOM – “In order to support Shadow DOM in SSR environments, a declarative Shadow DOM API is required”(proposal)
- Autofill on Browsers: A Deep Dive – on eBay’s engineering blog. Also note that autocomplete is the only sufficient technique currently for WCAG 2.1 1.3.5 AA.
- <select> your poison – accessible, custom select components, by Sarah Higley
- Styling The Good Ol’ Button Element so you don’t need to fake them with <div>, do you?
- The ultimate guide to iframes
- Semantic HTML with Bruce Lawson – I bravely went on the @JSJabber podcast to tell them to use less JavaScript and more good old fashioned HTML. None of them punched me.
- Monzo’s tone of voice guide – really nice guide to writing for the web (and email and everywhere else)
- Igalia Chats with Martin Robinson on a11y – The George Clooney of web standards, Brian Kardell, is ruthless interrogator
- Howdy-do, Prince 13.2! Support custom list markers for PDF/UA; Support rendering intents for color conversion; Fixed issue affecting Indic texts and Baekmuk Batang font; Fixed bug affecting the JavaScript Array slice method, and lots more.
- Responsible Web Design and Joomla 4, by Brian Teeman
- Google users in UK to lose EU data protection – “Google is planning to move its British users’ accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said. The shift, prompted by Britain’s exit from the EU, will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions with less protection”
- [css-device-adapt] Remove @viewport – CSS Working Group proposes to deprecate this spec. (it shipped in Opera Presto and IE Trident, but those have joined the choir invisible)
- Malware Steals Data By Adjusting Screen Brightness – in a way imperceptible to a user, but easily captured with a camera and turned back into data
- Why Amazon knows so much about you – long piece accompanying a BBC documentary
- The Great Google Revolt – “Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.” Long read.
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