The Best Of The Internets

I love how Mandy deftly wove progressive enhancement into her content strategy and publishing discussion:

Perhaps ironically, we’ve found that the best way to create that resiliency is by harking back to the web principle of progressive enhancement: each story created in Chorus begins as a platform-neutral collection of text, images, and video. That foundation ensures that we can publish that story as easily to our own platform as to, say, AMP or Apple News, and be confident that our audience will experience that story in a way that fits whichever platform they are using. On our own platform, we’re then free to enhance up, adding stylistic or experiential flairs that elevate the experience of the story. This practice — which I refer to unoriginally as progressively enhanced storytelling — also has the added benefit of helping us make our content more accessible to more kinds of users, especially those with disabilities. (It wouldn’t be inaccurate to consider speaking browsers one among the many platforms we must publish to.)

A hilarious and completely accurate reflection on the cultural similarities shared by JavaScript and crossfire enthusiasts.

Yep.

Progressive enhancement focuses on the entire customer experience by continually looking forward to embrace improvements vs looking backward to degrade them.

I love, love, love this talk from Niels Leenheer at Frontend NE. He covers TV browsers, game consoles, handheld consoles, e-readers, and VR headsets and talks about what we can, can’t, and should try to do to accommodate them.

You can also watch Niels give this talk on YouTube.

This is a nice overview of where you should be spending your mobile device testing time if you’re clueless about where to begin. Obviously it skews toward BrowserStack’s offerings, but it’s a pretty solid list of devices. It doesn’t touch on browsers though, which means Opera is a glaring omission.

Here’s Jeffrey’s introduction to the 2016 10k Apart contest. Did you know it’s An Event Apart’s 10 year anniversary? How cool is that?!

Here’s a little bit of an introduction to the 2016 10k Apart contest from yours truly.

I’m so excited about this new contest!

The Challenge? Build a compelling web experience that can be delivered in 10kB and works without JavaScript.

If you can, there’s big money waiting for you!

PS - I’ll be writing up the build process for the site in the coming weeks.

I love this overview of handy column-busting CSS options.

I’m learning more and more about Service Workers every day…