Reading List 231

• A report from the AMP Advisory Committee Meeting – Uncle Tezza (@edent) joined the AMP Advisory Committee so Google aren’t surrounded by yes-men, and so you don’t have to. Buy him a pint next time you see him and give him a big snog to say thanks.
• Sheetson – “Instantly turn any Google Sheet into RESTful API.”
• Animation Handbook – looks pretty good (but I know nothing about animation)
• SVG Properties and CSS – “the SVG elements that are available to us as well as the CSS properties for them.”
• If you use AMP, are your sites accessible? (from the official AMP Advisory Committee minutes)
• Hands-on with Portals: seamless navigations on the Web as Malte Ubi writes “with Portals you can make something that feels like a single SPA even though page A is built with LegacyAngularWeNoLongerTouchThis and page B is built with ReactInternProjectWeDidntKnowHowReduxWorksYet.”
• Switching From WordPress To Hugo – convert an existing WP site to static site generator
• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About inputmode – “inputmode doesn’t change the way the browser interprets the input — it instructs the browser which keyboard to display”
• Government Digital Service: sample accessibility statement, monitoring and enforcement – “New regulations mean that public sector websites and mobile apps will soon have a legal duty to meet accessibility requirements”
• Some Accessibility Resources by Scott O’Hara
• Notes from the a11y underground #1 – Steve Faulkner lists some “meaty articles and threads related to subjects close to my technical heart” that have “tickled” his “fancy”
• Which of Drupal and WordPress is the most accessible content management system? asks the splendid Jonathan Hassell
• AMP as your web framework – “The bait’n’switch is laid bare.” says Jezza Keef
• Inside Microsoft’s surprise decision to work with Google on its Edge browser – “there were dozens, perhaps even hundreds, of what he calls “oops” incidents where Google would respond to Mozilla and say the changes were accidental and would be fixed. “I’m all for ‘don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence’ but I don’t believe Google is that incompetent,” Nightingale wrote.”
• Microsoft launches React Native for Windows
• Facebook plans to launch ‘GlobalCoin’ cryptocurrency in 2020
• Sidestepping Apple: the third-party tinkerers fighting for your right to repair – “We’re made to see our devices as if they are these sacrosanct objects but really, they’re just a battery and a screen, something that a stay-at-home mom can learn how to fix in her dining room.”

from Bruce Lawson's personal site http://bit.ly/2ExehiN