You can now scan your website for potential issues with standards & interoperability, accessibility, performance, and mobile, right from within Vorlon.js. This is really awesome stuff!
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Chrome for Android can now save more data by blocking website images
Full circle, eh? The Blazer browser on my Palm Treo 650 (circa 2004) had a “Fast Mode” that switched off (optionally) images, CSS, and JavaScript.
“Power Mode” Atom Package
This is hilarious! If you use Atom, you can now become all-powerful…
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ally.js
A JavaScript library that “provides certain standard functions the ‘web platform’ should’ve provided itself, so JavaScript applications can be made accessible more easily.”
So you want to be a front end developer?
If you’re starting your career in programming, I could not give recommend a better guide than this one.
Seriously, Don’t Use Icon Fonts
An excellent overview of why you shouldn’t be using icon fonts and should be using SVG instead. In short: Don’t be Table Guy.
PSA: Don’t Use Gradient Generators!
Did you know most of the CSS gradient generation tools out there are highly inefficient? This post from Ana Tudor fills you in on why and makes some excellent recommendations for slimming down your CSS.
X-Tag
If you follow web components, you’ve no doubt heard of Polymer. It’s the most popular library, but the 2nd most popular is X-Tag. The project was founded at Mozilla and is backed by Microsoft too. It’s standards-based, lightweight, has a generous support matrix, and plays well with other libraries. If you’re into web components, you should check it out.
VS Code v0.10.1
Looks like the Visual Studio Code team has been busy. There are a ton of new features in the latest update to the Atom-based text editor. Oh, and it’s open source too.
Peering Into The Minds Of The 4.3 Billion Unconnected
This article touches on many of the issues we will struggle with as more of the world’s population comes online. The biggest one (in my mind at least) is low/no literacy. I am hopeful that voice-based interactions (e.g. Siri, Cortana, Echo) will help with that.