Dispatches From The Internets

A lovely post from WordPress co-founding developer Mike Little on progressive enhancement and JavaScript dependence. It’s an excellent retort to Joe Hoyle’s response to Andrey “Rarst” Savchenko’s reaction to WordPress’ announcement of Calypso and their mode to Node and a Single Page App architecture for Wordpress.com administration.

Here’s a nugget of gold:

[V]isual difficulties are not the only reason people need accessible web sites. Those with motor difficulties, who can only use keyboards or special devices like braille readers, head wands, sip and puff controllers, etc. or simply those with unsteady hands that find a mouse difficult to use like the ever-increasing aged population, all need to be able to use the web too.

A few awesome examples of using automatically-calculated margins in flexbox layouts.

PPK shares some truly valuable info about input[type=range] in this exhaustive post.

TL;DR Many Facebook widgets are just fronts for getting at your (often private) data.

The lovely Tim Kadlec offers his recommendations for holiday reading. His review of my book made me tear up. Seriously.

Better performance == better results. Here’s the proof.

This is an interesting proposal on EE’s part.

Olaf Swantee, EE’s chief executive, has launched a strategic review that will decide whether the operator should help its 27 million customers to restrict the quantity and type of advertising that reaches their devices, amid concern over increasingly intrusive practices.