- Draft BBC Mobile Accessibility Standards and Guidelines – by Henny Swan
- MQtest.io – A simple tool to help identify which media queries your device responds to
- JavaScript Cookbook is a site for common JavaScript problems and solutions
- Changes in rankings of smartphone search results – Google will spank you if you have faulty redirects (“when a desktop page redirects smartphone users to an irrelevant page on the smartphone-optimized website”) or App download interstitials
- Grumpicon for SVG icons/ illustrations with PNG fallback for everbrown browsers
- “Lots has happened in the world of Responsive Images since I wrote Mo’ Pixels, Mo’ Problems. And by lots, I mean nothing at all.” – a follow-up post to a 2012 article for A List Apart
- W3C Pointer Events Gains Further Web Momentum with Patch For Mozilla Firefox – Micosoft also intends to implement for Blink
- The problem with the ‘debate’ over online porn is the two sides aren’t even speaking the same language says the Daily Telegraph, showing that censorship proposals by Claire Perry aren’t based on fact, or understanding of the mechanics of the web
- Stop Doing Internet Wrong commands Scott Hanselman
- Setting a custom ghost image when using HTML5 drag and drop – vile hackery by @sil (for which I’m partially to blame)
- Progressive enhancement is still important says Jake Archibald
- Yehuda Katz: The Future of the Client-Side Web – 30 min video, well worth watching
- Why JavaScript? – why invest loads of time and effort making JS fit the needs of the modern web, by another reformist TAG member, Alex Russell
- HTML5 Doctor: The
main element - Testing the web – practical instructions by HTML5 Dr @boblet on how *you* can help interop by writing reftests
- Introducing Web Animations – harmonising (some of) SVG and CSS animations. Coming soon in Blink, Firefox and Polyfill
- Opt Out of Klout – Now! – “A number on a screen doesn’t control your destiny; you do” says Terence Eden
- Anorak corner: Who designed the “broken image” icons? (Quora link, sorry mobile users)
Reading List #7
A List of Programming Screencast Series
- Railscasts - Ruby on Rails
- Destroy all Software - Ruby, Python, Unix, software design.
- Code School - Ruby, Rails, iOS, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, etc.
- Clean Coders - software design and discipline
- PeepCode - Long-form videos on many different languages and technologies
- NSScreencast - weekly bite-sized screencasts on iOS development.
- Minimalist Programming - Haskell
- Neckbeard Republic - Python
- Backbone Rails - Rails and Backbone.js
- Build Podcast - a different tool/tech every episode.
- Vimcasts
- Emacs Rocks
- Hack Emacs
- MetaCasts - EmberJS, Ruby, RubyMotion, JavaScript, etc.
- Ember 101 - EmberJS
- WatchMeCode - JavaScript
- Must Hack - Ruby, UNIX
- Programming Tutorials from William Byrd - Scheme, functional programming concepts
- Egghead - AngularJS
- Tekpub - .NET, Ruby, JavaScript, and more
- Frontend Masters - HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
- Treehouse - Web, Adnroid, iOS, Ruby on Rails, PHP
- EventedMind - NodeJS, Meteor
- dot enter - d3
- Let’s Code - Test-Driven JavaScript
- Pluralsight - “Hardcore developer training”
- Motioncasts - RubyMotion
- Learning iOS Development with Azam Sharp
- RubyTapas – Ruby, TDD, and OOP
- EmberCasts – EmberJS
Reading List #6
- More than half of humanity lives within this circle – see their mobile usage and stats in mobile web atlas of Asia Pacific (July 2012)
- Fighting the Space Between Inline Block Elements
- Financial Times: ‘There is no drawback to working in HTML5′ – also interesting concept of “finite read”
- The User is Drunk – design like the user is drunk. 5 min video.
- Notes on BBC News responsive images by BBC devs
- You Can’t Detect A Touchscreen – also see Modernizr issue touch class placed on all browers on windows 8 on a regualr pc with no touch support
- The HTML5 outline algorithm and JAWS by Gez Lemon. So read it.
- Hot in web standards: March/April 2013 by Lea Verou
- Web Wishes – Unofficial Draft – Web Intents/ Web Activities part #694
- Facebook Comes to Google Glass – rejoice!
- IE10 and Beyond: Unifying Touch and Mouse Made Easy with Pointer Events also
-ms-touch-action: auto | none | manipulation | double-tap-zoom | inherit - Web Payments Community Group at W3C
- Best Practices: Designing Touch Tablet Experiences for Preschoolers (PDF) – by Sesame Street
- Facebook to Firefox: Please add WebP image support (More about WebP)
- Last week in WebKit: Out of the Shadows – “Antti began ripping out parts of the Shadow DOM implementation.”
- Perspectives on Encrypted Media Extension Reaching First Public Working Draft – fight about DRM at W3C. There appear to be entrenched positions, surprisingly.
Misc
- fartscroll.js – You want fart noises as you scroll? We’ve got you covered.
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