NEWT, innit?
- F**K CAPTCHA – Big site removes CRAPTCHA, sees conversion rate uplift of 33.3%
- Using Flexbox: Mixing Old and New for the Best Browser Support
- Microsoft’s new WebKit patch for Pointer Events – great spec; needs support for pointers from multiple simultaneous users, eg multi-player games like PS3, Wii
- More on screen readers and HTML title attributes by James Craig, editor of WAI-ARIA spec (VoiceOver supports them, and in the future things may be better, he says)
- A Comprehensive Guide to WebP
- Manifest format should support some way of including a splash screen – discussion started by Marcos Caceres
Industry
- Not just featurephones: Smartphones are 32% of Opera Mini/ Mobile installs, 8 million new users in January
- Africa’s True Mobile Revolution Has Yet to Start – “The United States economy is nine times the size of Africa’s, but Africa has twice as many mobile phones.”
- Google has killed Android (the brand) – “Of course, Android is dominant. So much that saying you sell an “Android phone” makes you a cheap commodity play. Nobody wants that, they all want to be cool and different … Android is now so dominant, it can be killed. Because it is just what’s inside. What matters, it is the outside.”
Misc
- Guardian Truncation Team – “Celebrating the work of the tireless men & women who shorten headlines so they’ll fit on your iPhone.”
- Screenshots of Despair
