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- Open Web Advocacy 2023 in Review – Looking back at what our little rag-tag band of grumpy web developers has achieved against one of the biggest companies in the world and its BILLION dollar legal fund, it really is quite amazing. If I’m found dead with half a dozen sharpened iPads lodged up my arse, or run over by an experimental self-driving Apple Car, it won’t be co-incidence.
- What does the Post Office scandal teach us about data and AI regulation? “even as the government congratulates itself on finally acting to compensate victims and quash convictions, its own Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is laying the groundwork for both making similar scandals more likely in the future” by Jeni Tennison, an actual expert.
- European Commission on Accessibility overlays – “Claims that a website can be made fully compliant without manual intervention are not realistic, since no automated tool can cover all the WCAG 2.1 level A and AA criteria … some overlay tools have been reported to interfere with the assistive technologies used by people with disabilities. In other words, overlay tools may make a website less accessible for some users.”
- wakamai fondue is an online utility to introspect the contents (kerning and stylistic variants, language support etc) of font files.
- We removed advertising cookies, here’s what happened
- CSS vertical writing mode for form control elements – “useful for many East Asian languages that traditionally have used vertical scripts for writing”
- The Web Renaissance Takes Off by Anil Dash
- App Store to Be ‘Split in Two’ Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline – “Apple is preparing to split the App Store “in two” in the coming weeks ahead of European Union requirements that will force Apple to enable app sideloading in the region, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports.”
- Accessibility options for Floating Action Buttons
- Kind of annoyed at React – “before the pandemic, I taught React full time. So trust me when I say: React’s gotten really hard to understand.”
- Also: React, where are you going? – “I see two problems that make me enjoy React a little less and make me worry that new developers might be intimidated by it: ownership and complexity.”
- “Inheriting” grid dimensions from siblings with subgrid
- Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech
- Why Are Tech Reporters Sleeping On The Biggest App Store Story? – “Browsers are the most likely disruptor of the mobile duopoly but you’d never know it reading Wired or The Verge”. By the Taylor Swift of browsers, Big Al Russell.
- We’re sorry we created the Torment Nexus – a talk transcript about SciFi, Silicon Valley tech megawankers and culture, by Charlie Stross
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