This is despicable. If you are the mother of either Jordan French or Darius Fisher, please slap some sense into your little fuckwits. Lejarazu family: I am so sorry.

I miss the old Austin.

A great discussion of the implications of Internet censorship on businesses and the economy. Choice quote:

When governments begin developing complex and counterintuitive online rules for their various jurisdictions, any semblance of global development is broken down. The resulting risk is that we will be left with multiple internets, each with their own rules, laws and guidelines.

One of the hardest things about debugging websites is parsing bug reports provided by non-tech folks. And one of the most common issues with them is confirmation of what browser & version, OS & version, and possibly what device they are running it on. Do yourself a favor and have them hit yourbrowser.is to copy & paste the results for you before posting the bug.

Hilarious!

Jeffrey Zeldman and I discuss web design then and now; why Flipboard’s 60fps web launch is anti-web and anti-user; Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” video, and other bad ideas from the 1980s; design versus art; the demise and sendoff of Web Standards Sherpa; how the web community differs from other creative communities; and the 2nd Edition of Adaptive Web Design, coming from New Riders later this year.

The new browser codenamed “Project Spartan” won’t be in it, but the March build of the public Windows 10 preview has a bunch of new features. Among my favorites:

• ARIA Landmark Roles,
• Web Audio API,
• @supports,
• CSS Gradient Midpoints,
• unprefixed Fullscreen API,
• Touch Events API,
• HTML5 date inputs (behind a flag),
• CSS transitions & animations for SVG (behind a flag), and
• CSS filters (behind a flag).

RemoteIE should be updated soon too.

The server-side Presto rendering engine that drives Opera Mini has gotten a major upgrade, introducing some great new features including

• flexbox
• rem units, and
• a bit of ECMAScript 5.

HTML5 input types are on the docket. They won’t be displayed properly in clients until they get an upgrade, but the parse is aware of them now and they will fall back to “text” inputs until the client roll-out happens.

This is a fantastic overview of the various analytics reporting options available for developers along with a list of pros and cons for each. Highly recommended reading!

A great post from Taylor Feliz on why outdated browsers, in general, are more of a problem than Internet Explorer, specifically. He also ends with a great call to action:

[L]et’s develop websites that are cross browser and supported by all major browsers as our job as web developers require it. It is not our job to decide what browser is cool or not; we have to provide an accessible and working website to all users because cross browser development is as or more important that even a responsive design.

I never even saw this proposal, but how cool would it be to set snap points for scrolling content in CSS?!

.container {
  width: 500px;
  overflow-x: auto;
  overflow-y: hidden;
  white-space: nowrap;
  /* Set up points to which scrolling will snap */
  -ms-scroll-snap-points-x: snapInterval(0px, 100%);
  /* Require that scrolling always end at a snap point */ 
  -ms-scroll-snap-type: mandatory; 
}

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