No one was more deserving of this award than Molly. No one.
Thank you for all you have done for the Web Mols! And, especially, thank you for all you have done for me.
The Best Of The Internets
Net Awards: Outstanding Contribution
Your computer school sucks
Accessibility is an afterthought in much of our industry. In order to change that, education needs to change and code schools need to change. Karl nails it in this post:
While Hacker You should be applauded for their regular lunch-and-learns, I think that all computer schools should include accessibility embedded in core curriculum. It will create an alumni population better prepared to create interfaces that are universally usable. Their alumni will be differentiated by their ability to consider the user’s needs. After all, if you’re not developing for the user, who are you developing for?
Restoration of defocused and blurred images
Time to stop blurring sensitive client information in your slide decks and articles. Cover it in a black box instead.
Notes on use of multiple ARIA role attribute values
Did you know the ARIA role attribute allows for multiple values? It’s how role supports fault tolerance: the first value (of the space separated list) is applied, but if the assistive technology in use doesn’t understand it, the second value will be tried, etc. until a usable alternative is found. It works a lot like font stacks.
The Problem of “Fire and Forget” in Web Design
Jens Oliver Meiert on why we should continue to tidy up to and improve on our creations rather than letting them site once we’ve launched them. I’ve never been once for maintenance contracts with clients, but I also believe that sites that aren’t tended to every now and again can become overgrown or, worse, wither and die.
ES6 in WebKit (October 2015)
This is an update on where things stand with the ECMAScript 6/2015 spec in WebKit. Currently in Safari for El Capitan & iOS9:
- Classes
- Promises
- Map, Set, WeakMap, WeakSet,
for…ofloops, and - Symbols
Coming soon:
let,const, andclassblock scoping- a portion of the Reflect API
- some of the current module specification
- Tail calls
- Default parameter values
- Default destructuring values
- Arrow functions, and
- a portion of the internationalization API
For an excellent overview of ES6 support, consult this handy chart.
India is the most expensive place to buy an iPhone 6S
Are you building web projects for the developing world? If so, you can probably forego any in-depth testing on flagship phones like the iPhone 6S.
“Tomato” versus “#FF6347”—the tragicomic history of CSS color names
Did you ever wonder how we ended up with color names like “thistle” and “peru” in the CSS color spec? This article provides a little history.
AMP and Incentives
This is an excellent big picture perspective on Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) from Tim Kadlec.
Shadow DOM (6 October 2015)
The latest draft of the Shadow DOM spec has been published. Check it out and give the team some feedback.