A Little Less Metacrap - Broken Links
Peter writes a follow-up to my post on metadata markup pointing out that Twitter will fall back to Open Graph values.
Link archive: December 1st, 2015
Flexbox Froggy - A game for learning CSS flexbox
This is superb!
Flexbox can be tricky to get your head around, but this exercise does a great job of walking you through each step in a fun way. I highly recommend trying all 24 levels.
Why Implementing Swipe Gestures Causes A Mobile Accessibility Issue
Jennison Asuncion outlines the problem with relying on a swipe gesture for interactions.
I would say that this could be expanded to just about any interaction: it’s always dangerous to rely on one specific gesture. It’s always better to either provide multiple ways of accomplishing a task, or to simply take a declarative approach, get out of the way, and let the user agent handle it.
Drag and Drop File Uploading | CSS-Tricks
This is a terrific example of progressive enhancement in action: going from a simple file input to a lovely interactive drag’n’drop interface.
The code uses jQuery but it could be easily adapted to vanilla JavaScript, and anyway, it’s not so much the code that matters, it’s the approach.
Translating Gender: Ancillary Justice in Five Languages Alex Dally MacFarlane | Interfictions Online
A fascinating look into the challenges encountered translating Anne Leckie’s excellent Radchaai novels into Bulgarian, German, Hebrew, Japanese, and Hungarian.
What is clear in all of these responses is that by examining the notions of ‘neutral’ and ‘feminine’ in grammar and gender through the lens of translation, we reveal their complexity – and some of their possible futures in languages, in both literature and speech.
Learn Sketch 3 - Design+Code
A very handy introduction to Sketch from an iOS-specific book. See also the subsequent chapter, Mastering Sketch 3.
The proto-internet | Intelligent Life magazine
Mapping the submarine cables of the Victorian internet.
And by the way, why did nobody tell me about Cartophilia before now? I’m very disappointed in you.