“Every site looks the same” and iOS 9 out to the public. Enjoy!
Coding for the Big Screen with the Apple TVOS SDK
There isn’t web views in tvOS right now, but that could change (or other manufacturers could add browsers).
Source: www.sitepoint.com
The Cost of Mobile Ads on 50 News Websites – The New York Times
Wow! “Visiting the home page of Boston.com every day for a month would cost the equivalent of about $9.50 in data usage just for the ads.”
Source: www.nytimes.com
The best iOS 9 features you don’t know about yet
For the iOS users out there.
Source: www.theverge.com
Side Effects vs. Promises
When you start working with asynchronous calls, promises become very valuable.
Source: www.blueskyonmars.com
Protocol Relative Enqueues
Friendly reminder, always remove http: from external resources in your html. It will probably break with SSL or HTTP/2 otherwise.
Source: make.wordpress.org
Adobe Flash: The End is Near as BBC Joins the Party
I feel like this is IE6 all over again. Not quite the same, but still rooting for an old technology to die.
Source: www.favbrowser.com
All You Need to Know About the New WordPress Site Icon API
This works well for icons that look good anywhere from 32px to 270px, but not all icons can do that.
Source: www.sitepoint.com
Every website looks the same, and that’s ok
It’s kinda true, they all do. It means we’ve found design patterns that work. That doesn’t mean we can’t keep pushing the envelop, just be thoughtful about it.
Source: www.webdesignerdepot.com
The Trials and Tribulations of the (Not So) Quick Pass #wtfUX
My former state’s turnpike pass website isn’t very useable. :/
Source: feedproxy.google.com
Optimus.io – Lossless Image Compression in WordPress
This does a bit more than EWWW plugin like WebP conversion. That’s pretty slick! But also comes with a possible subscription cost.
Source: www.wpcontent.co.uk
Breaking Up Large Files Into Sections
I’ve done this on some projects in the past. It works really well!
Source: css-tricks.com
Blocked: An In-Depth Special Report on iOS 9 Content Blockers
Cool to see the WordPress folks 10up doing research on ad-blocking.
Source: 10up.com