The Best Of The Internets

This piece echoes much of what was said at Responsive Day Out: Step outside your bubble. Learn about how others experience the web. Design for a continuum and you will support more users with fewer headaches.

Microsoft’s Frank Oliver has a nice write-up on the importance of browser interoperability and what the browser team has done with Microsoft Edge.

A bit from Akamai’s Guy Podjarny on the high cost of images and what you can (and should) do about it.

Images are also the single biggest resource type on a page, making up 63% of overall page weight. If we removed all images from the top 1,000 websites, these sites would load 30% faster on average over 3G.

The highlights:

• Scroll snapping (see also David Storey’s write-up on this)
• Some ECMAScript 6
• CSS Filters
• Removing some vendor prefixes

The yawners:

• Pinned sites
• Force touch
• HTML Video picture in picture

Overall I’m kind of meh on the updates. I was hoping for more.

I wonder how many app developers will needlessly flip this switch and cut off every iOS device that doesn’t have a 64 bit processor. Given that with every new phone release, sales of the old ones spike, the folks that buy the older models may be a little miffed to find out the apps they want to use have decided it’s inconvenient to support them.

The New York Times is training every employee that mobile matters. I wish more companies would do this!

I love that Opera is building its browser for as many platforms as possible. OS X and Windows of course, but they are also on iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Java ME, Bada, Windows Mobile, Zeebo, and now Windows Phone.

Go Opera go!

Greg Whitworth shares the status of srcset in Microsoft Edge along with what’s coming (and a request that you update Picturefill if you’re using it).

Brilliant post on progressive enhancement for performance. Well worth a read.