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Bookmark Spotlight 21

Accessibility

W3C receives Ford Foundation core funding toward development of web accessibility work
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards.
Accessibility Misinformation
Misinformation is quite the thing these days. Now it seems to be working its way into the accessibility space.

Books

GitHub - johnfactotum/foliate: Read e-books in style
Read e-books in style. Contribute to johnfactotum/foliate development by creating an account on GitHub.
Pinouts.org

Design

Royal Mail? More like Royal FAIL
Adam Silver – interaction designer - London, UK

Development

If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today’s frontend discourse, and it’s bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.
Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter • Josh W. Comeau
Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
HTMHell Advent Calendar 2024 - HTMHell
An article, talk, or tool that focuses on HTML every day until Christmas.
ESLint (@eslint@fosstodon.org)
📣 Start linting CSS with ESLint using the brand new eslint/css package! This is a very early edition so feedback is welcome. 🐣 https://www.npmjs.com/package/@eslint/css
TreeWalker - Web APIs | MDN
The TreeWalker object represents the nodes of a document subtree and a position within them.
Device Posture API
This document specifies an API that allows web applications to request and be notified of changes of the posture of a device.
How a BBC navigation bar component broke depending on which external monitor it was on - Josh Tumath
CSS Gets a New Logo: And It Uses the Color `rebeccapurple` | MichaelCharl.es/Aubrey (Michael Charles Aubrey)
A community vote in the CSS-Next repository on GitHub decided on a new official logo for CSS. The design follows the design language of the logos of other web technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly. A demonstration of the new rebeccapurple colored CSS logo alongside the logos from JavaScript, TypeScript, WebAssembly, and other web technologies But perhaps more importantly, the logo uses the color rebeccapurple (#663399), a color that was added to the CSS specification in 2014…
ccTLDs are bad for your project - Duck Alignment Academy
Using a ccTLD puts your project’s infrastructure at the whims of geopolitics. There are plenty of other TLDs to choose from.
Building a robust frontend using progressive enhancement - Service Manual - GOV.UK
How to build web pages so they work in HTML first: starting with HTML, extra styles and features, using JavaScript.

Gaming

HISTORY | Zelda Portal | Nintendo
Introducing the history of Hyrule, the setting for The Legend of the Zelda series.​ ​

Law

noyb is now qualified to bring collective redress actions
noyb is now approved as so-called “Qualified Entity” to bring collective redress actions in courts throughout the European Union

Machine Learning

AI Firm’s ‘Stop Hiring Humans’ Billboard Campaign Sparks Outrage
People are predictably unhappy about being told they don’t deserve jobs.
Microsoft’s Copilot has an oversharing problem. The company is trying to help customers fix it.
Microsoft released tools to address security issues with Copilot, which indexes internal data and sometimes shares sensitive customer information.
CSS { In Real Life } | Education Needs Teachers, Not More Technology

Misc

A Single Div
A CSS drawing experiment to see what’s possible with a single div.
Gabriele Pala ● Sketchbook Dungeon

Security

RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild
ESET Research details the analysis of a previously unknown vulnerability in Mozilla products exploited in the wild and another previously unknown Microsoft Windows vulnerability, combined in a zero-click exploit.

Web

US Justice Dept confirms it wants Google to sell Chrome
Filing also suggests it flogging off Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out
Don’t call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.