Reading List #9

• Is HTML Relevant in the Age of Web Apps? – edited transcript of John Allsopp’s Full Frontal 2012 talk

• SVG Fallbacks by Chris Coyier. Good comments.

• Blink: Add support for the object-fit CSS property by Opera’s Morten Stenshorne

• Around the World Wide Web in Eighty Minutes – a fun look at internationalisation capabilities on the Web by Richard Ishida

• Font Hacking – “primer on extracting, deconstructing, altering and replacing letterforms”. With good jokes.

• W3C Launches Web and Mobile Interest Group – “that is chartered to accelerate the development of Web technology so that it becomes a compelling platform for mobile applications and the obvious choice for cross platform development” starring Jo Rabin (John Steed), Marcos Caceras (Mike Gambit), Natasha Rooney (Purdey).

• Responsive Web Design is Solid Gold by Jason Grigsby – “I’m now firmly on the side that there is no mobile context. We have abundant data that shows that people use their mobile devices indoors and for a wide variety of things.”

• How easy is it to hack JavaScript in a browser?

• Daala video compression “Daala is the code-name for a new video compression technology.” Hooray! Another video format.

• Semantic data markup: Microdata, yea nor nay? (warning: Google+)

• How well do the HTML 5 replacements for table summary attribute work with current Screen Readers and Browsers?

• W3C: Splash screen for native web apps

• Proposed update to element definition (see my article On citing quotations. Again. for more).

• Hixie on script pre-loading

• “Fuck You” – Brad Frost on deliberately excluding groups of people from the Web

• Mobile operators altering (and breaking) web content by Matthew Somerville

• Resource Priorities – spec including groovy thangs like < img lazyload > (partially implemented in IE11 Preview) and < img postpone >

• Enabling new types of web user experiences – guest W3C blog post by Scott Jenson, a well-known UX designer and creative director

• port.js is a Chrome-(and-Opera!)–to–Safari porting library for extensions

• proposal: replace navigator.mozPay() with primitives – Mozilla’s trying to make a low-level API for payments

• Executive Class – calculating the Myers-Briggs personality type of the London Underground’s Waterloo & City Line

• The Great Language Game Of thousands of languages spoken in the world, here are seventy. How many can you distinguish between? (my score: 800)