Dispatches From The Internets

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Ever wonder if websites can track your every move?

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Les défis du “progressive enhancement”

This is a nice overview (in French) of how Hopwork handles progressive enhancement in their SaaS product. Their back-end is Java too. It’s nice to see folks talking about how to progressively enhance products in that language; we don’t hear about that often enough.

Mac-like Special Characters in Windows

I am a bit of a geek for proper punctuation: Em dashes… en dashes… curly quotes… ellipses… I love them all! Prior to 2007, I was a long-time Windows user and was a master of the Alt + numeric code system of entering special characters on that operating system. For nearly a decade, however, I’ve been writing and developing on a Mac and I absolutely love how much easier it is to use special characters. When I started setting up my new Surface Book, I began searching for a way to bring Mac-like special character entry to Windows 10. [^1]: I actually memorized a ton of the codes, much to my amazement. I still remember a few, but I am thankful to have reclaimed a bit of that memory space over the last few years.

iOS doesn’t support Progressive Web Apps, so what?

As usual, Jason Grigsby nails it:

  • Progressive Web Apps still work on iOS
  • Progressive Web Apps perform better on iOS
  • Billions of people use browsers that support Progressive Web Apps
  • Apple appears to be warming to Progressive Web App technology
  • Progressive Web Apps benefit all users

Done and done.

Technical Credit

This is an excellent post about progressive enhancement from the “technical credit” (as opposed to “technical debt”) point of view.