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.

’Nuff said.

This is exciting news:

For the first time, all of W3C’s active Working Groups now operate in public.

A fantastic overview of best practices for running an open source project on Github from the folks at 18F. Covers everything to naming your project to writing READMEs to reporting issues.

An Android is an Android is an Android, right? Right?

This post will blow your mind.

Worth noting:

Justifying text can present problems for people with Dyslexia, where the extended spaces between words and sometimes letters within words can create what’s been termed “rivers of white”, referring to the spaces of white that can visually dominate the text.