Building Offline Sites with ServiceWorkers and UpUp (UpUp is a nice’n’easy ServiceWorkers library)
Subgrids Considered Essential – Eric Meyer on CSS Grids: “If grid layout is released without subgrid support, we’re risking shoving subgrids into the back of the author-practices cupboard for a long time to come. And along with it, potentially, grids themselves.”
Related: Could a simpler subgrid lead to more implementer interest? – proposal by Francois Remy
Big Web Show 141: CSS Grid Layout With Rachel Andrew Rachel is “Ms Grids”.
The woes of date input – HTML5Doctor article by Ian Devlin
Remove <iframe seamless> – removing it from HTML (no-one implements; overtaken by events; complex; devs need auto-resize, but CSS Working Group is already on the case).
The world’s poorest households are more likely to have a mobile phone than a toilet – Word Bank report. “The full benefits of the information and communications transformation will not be realized unless countries continue to improve their business climate, invest in people’s education and health, and promote good governance.”
The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar – “A dispatch from an Internet revolution in progress”. Fascinating article.
What to do when you get sued… [for your inaccessible website] (revisited) by Karl Groves
Moving to a Plugin-Free Web – “Oracle plans to deprecate the Java browser plugin in JDK 9”
Losing Our Heads – Separating Information from Interface – nice briefing note by Peter Gasston on Push notifications, their usefulness to consumers, and their effect on UI design
What I’ve learned from monitoring four years of web page bloat by Tammy Everts, with helpful tips on what to concentrate on to give anyone who touches your web pages
Talking of fast, fast pages: Opera Mini 14 for Android is out, with more than 90 languages supported, including 13 Indian languages.
Responsive Image Breakpoints Generator, A New Open Source Tool
2016 – the year of web streams – Jank Architect walks you through the Streams API. Good comments, too.
Optimising SVGs for Web Use — Part 1
Leaner Responsive Images With Client Hints
Gyrophone: Recognizing Speech From Gyroscope Signals – ” Since iOS and Android require no special permissions to access the gyro, our results show that apps and active web content that cannot access the microphone can nevertheless eavesdrop on speech in the vicinity of the phone.”
My Experience With the Great Firewall of China – “as an InfoSec professional I was very curious to finally be able to poke at the Great Firewall of China with my own hands to see how it works and how easy it is evade”
Uninstalling Facebook Speeds Up Your Android Phone – Tested – “that settles it for me… I am joining the browser-app camp for now…”
Lite apps grow in popularity on the App Store – because they’re less than 1MB to download, and work in low-connectivity conditions.
Woe-ARIA: The Surprisingly but Ridiculously Complicated World of aria-label/ aria-labelledby by one of the devs of the NVDA screenreader
Video corner: The Future of the Web Platform: Does It Have One? – Google’s sinister mastermind, Alex Russell, “discusses the impact of new standards-track technologies like Service Workers, Web Manifests, and Web Push which are landing in browsers” (48 mins)
Becoming Responsible for CSS – a talk by CSS co-editor Alan Stearns of Adobe (17 mins)
Audio corner: Working Draft – Revision 250: Achtung Baby! – “we managed to get our greedy hands on no one less than Bruce Lawson from Opera. Having barely returned from a trip to Asia and still dizzy from his jetlag, we managed to extract a whole bunch of classified information on CSS Houdini out of him (also thanks to our German interview style)”
Why India is the fastest growing tech hub in the world – “developers in India are 3 times more likely to be female than in the US.”
China’s Millennials Infographic – There are 318 million Chinese millennials (15-29 year olds). 48% are female. >90% own smartphones. >90 million are graduates. They’re 50% of China’s international travellers. 74% feel they have more in common with global millennials than their Chinese elders. Each expects to spend $4362 on luxury goods this year. 66% choose western brands over Asian brands.