New ES6 (ECMAScript 2015) features rolling out in V8: spread and new.target. Also: Reduced jank.

Jen Simmons and I discuss working on the web and all things progressive enhancement.

I had the great pleasure of seeing Dave present his accessible breakout game at the MS Edge Web Summit and have been eagerly awaiting this post ever since. So much good stuff in here!

An excellent round-up of research findings and articles with regard to accessibility and the infinite scrolling design pattern.

This is a fantastic resource for information on how different markup patterns are handled in terms of accessibility.

Jeff Burtoft and I collaborated on a little post about the benefits of hosted apps and the pros and cons of “going native”.

Need a Windows 10 (virtual) box for testing Microsoft Edge? They’re now available no the Microsoft Edge Dev site.

More selectors from Selectors Level 4 have landed in WebKit. This is a handy overview of some of them.

The bottom line: “Ultimately, you are going to end up fixing your website”, so “[b]eing proactive is far better than being reactive and that’s never more true than when you’re dealing with a legal threat.”

An excellent overview of where web advertising is and what lines it has crossed. This bit is particularly relevant:

This won’t be a clean, easy transition. Blocking pop-ups was much more incisive: it was easy for legitimate publishers to avoid one narrowly-useful Javascript function to open new windows. But it’s completely reasonable for today’s web readers to be so fed up that they disable all ads, or even all Javascript. Web developers and standards bodies couldn’t be more out of touch with this issue, racing ahead to give browsers and Javascript even more capabilities without adequately addressing the fundamental problems that will drive many people to disable huge chunks of their browser’s functionality.