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Reading List 23 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
Here’s your bank holiday reading list! 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...
We need a war on authoritarianism 20 Aug 2013 | 01:03 pm
It was with incredulity that I read the reports of that David Miranda, partner of the Guardian journalist who worked on the Snowden leaks, was detained by UK agents for 9 hours under anti-terrorism le...
On citing quotations. Again. 19 Aug 2013 | 02:59 pm
Every so often, the conversation about how to cite quotations in HTML comes up again. I’ve experimented throughout the years. In the heady XHTML days, I did <blockquote cite=”http://example.com/foo”...
Reading List 16 Aug 2013 | 07:22 pm
Responsive images WebKit has (partially) implemented a new attribute to our ancient chum <img> called srcset that allows authors to send a high-res image only to browsers that have high-resolution di...
Letter to my MP about web censorship 28 Jul 2013 | 08:24 pm
This morning I wrote to my MP, John Hemming via writetothem.com to express my concern about web censorship: Dear John Hemming, I noticed you tweeting that your geek rating is 90% , so I guess I don’...
Reading List 26 Jul 2013 | 07:34 pm
Web Standards Does Flexbox Have a Performance Problem? (TL;DR old flexbox does) uCSS crawls your website to find unused CSS, duplicate selectors (you can exclude pages/ subdomains) From microphone ...
Taffy at The Black Heart, Camden 24 Jul 2013 | 01:20 am
Last week, I was lucky enough to spend a couple of hours upstairs in a sweaty windowless room above a pub in Camden on a scorching summer’s evening. The reason I subjected myself to this misery was t...
Reading List 19 Jul 2013 | 07:12 pm
Standards Polymer “is a new type of library for the web, built on top of Web Components” In defense of the humble id attribute by John Allsopp Disable double tap zoom on mobile sites, to remove 300...
I’ve got the most beautiful pants (in all of Worcestershire) 17 Jul 2013 | 12:37 pm
Here’s an ancient traditional folk song that I wrote a few years ago to entertain the kids, and came back to me while jamming with the little oiks last night. Daughter’s on ukelele; son is way too coo...
Notes on Yaron Schoen’s “Platform economics in a nutshell” 15 Jul 2013 | 01:32 pm
Obviously, you’ve read Yaron Schoen’s ovarian1 article Platform economics in a nutshell. Even Syd Lawrence has. It’s an insightful piece of meta-analyis, to be certain. But I can’t help but feel that...
