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- Apple loses on Appeal, CMA can restart investigation into browsers – Open Web Advocacy.
- An Interactive Guide to CSS Grid This article is excellent, in my opinion. It explained a lot of things that I half-knew and helped me get a mental model of what’s happening. (Your learning style might be different, of course, but I found I had to read it 2 or 3 times to get into it, and I’ve bookmarked it to be able to refer to)
- How To Avoid Breaking Web Pages For Keyboard Users (including with ‘Skip Links’)
- The CSS property you didn’t know you needed –
isolation: isolate;– I’d never heard of it. - How to Use Responsive HTML Video (…and Audio!) – Back to the future, here; this was in the spec and in browsers (it was the inspiration for the original <picture> element), removed, and now is back again!
- Reflecting on 18 years at Google – Hixie, the leader of WHATWG that bought about “HTML5” and a renaissance for the Web, has resigned from Google. He’s characteristically forthright about his reasons.
- Exclusive accordions exclude – Eric Eggert on why the current proposal to extend HTML <details> element to make exclusive accordians hasn’t been sufficiently thought-through
- Vosh – a third-party screen-reader for the Macintosh – “After getting fed up with the general neglect of MacOS accessibility from Apple… I decided to attempt something that for some reason nobody seems to have tried to do before: write a completely new screen-reader for that platform.”
- Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India – “Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders”. A fascinating look at the culture differences, and a disconcerting reminder of the exploitation behind our gadgets.
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Wow! These are so inspiring. I love the Hixie- and the Foxconn-Stories. Thanks for sharing!