Robert’s read: links and suggestions December 20th 2011
Last chance to share some good reading with you before the end of 2011. Some good ones in here!
Tip: remember, you can always find all my reading suggestions in the Robert’s read category
Read for December 20th 2011
Is HTML 5 the olive branch for the Open Web?
Article inspired by my presentation in South Africa
See the Web Developer Tools in the Latest Aurora
A great screencast of the Web Developer Tools For Firefox, available in the latest Aurora builds.
Move The Web Forward
Contribute to the web platform.
A quick Siri note
With services like Siri, well-structured meaningful markup becomes even more important.
A look at some recently landed Web APIs for Firefox
Looking at the first experimental implementations of WebAPIs in Firefox.
‘Physics Of The Future’: How We’ll Live In 2100?
Imagine being able to access the Internet through the contact lenses on your eyeballs. Blink, and you’d be online. Meet someone, and you’d have the ability to immediately search their identity. And if your friend happens to be speaking a different language, an instantaneous translation could appear directly in front of you.
Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on Millions of Phones Logging Everything
The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.
The Mozilla Story
Do you know Mozilla? This video tells the story of how Mozilla helped shape the web we know today — and how we’re going beyond Firefox to do even more.
86th Birthday Rage
86th Birthday Rage
Facebook Developers HTML5 Blog
HTML5 blog by Facebook developers.
How to name your kid in a computer-based world
Funny comic about systems, security and naming. Geeky, of course.
24 ways: Adaptive Images for Responsive Designs… Again
Quite interesting from a hacking perspective, but also very important in displaying the lack of options in web browsers today when it comes to building more versatile designs.
Google Currents
Favorite publications, tuned for your tablet and smartphone.
Twitter Launches Brand Pages
Brand pages will let advertisers customize their headers to make their logo and tagline more prominent.
Is Apple using patents to hurt open standards?
Opera developer Haavard Moen has accused Apple of repeatedly using patents to undermine the development of Web standards and block their finalization.
Take on webOS and Mozilla
HP announced that they’re going to open source webOS. No matter what one may think of webOS (or HP), this is great news. It’s an opportunity, but it remains to be seen what HP and others will do with it.
The Exporter
Free your data on Twitter, Gowalla, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Foursquare
Join Us in the Mozilla Firefox Challenge This Holiday Season
Together with Will Ferrell, Sean Penn and more!
Wikimedia: How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia
SOPA has earned the dubious honor of facilitating Internet censorship in the name of fighting online infringement.
Mobile HTML5 compatibility tables
For iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, iPad and other mobile devices.
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
IE to Start Automatic Upgrades across Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7
A Case Against Using CoffeeScript
A blog post outlining some issues and thoughts about CoffeeScript
Facebook introduces Timeline
There has been a lot of talk about Facebook’s new Timeline, and now it’s here
Crazy Guy After House Fire
Don’t miss his mood change at the end of the video. 🙂
Gaming and the Mozilla Labs Apps Project
A quick overview of the Mozilla Labs Apps project and how it and the other technologies at Mozilla relate to gaming. We really are at a point where amazing games can be created on the Web with nothing but open technologies.
I like your list and also your HTML5 section with sample code. Would like to place a link to your code on our site… would you do the same by placing our link as a reference on your site?
Constantine,
Thanks, glad you like it!
The code is just available in the blog posts here, but feel free to use it!
When it comes to links, link exchanges and similar, it’s something i don’t generally do.