Setup a Service Worker by Calum Ryan
Calum has set up a Service Worker on his site. Here he muses on the potential for offline experiences.
Link archive: December 16th, 2015
Natural peer environment by Mikey Allan
‘Sfunny, I was just discussing this with Clare and Charlotte at work: how our office space (and culture) lends itself well to spontaneous exchanges of feedback and opinions.
More Responsive Tapping on iOS | WebKit
This solution to the mobile tap delay by the WebKit team sounds like what I was hoping for:
Putting
touch-action: manipulation;on a clickable element makes WebKit consider touches that begin on the element only for the purposes of panning and pinching to zoom. This means WebKit does not consider double-tap gestures on the element, so single taps are dispatched immediately.
It would be nice to know whether this has been discussed with other browser makers or if it’s another proprietary addition.
Better Google Web Fonts
A single page showing all the weights available from Google fonts at a glance.
CarbonGraffiti | When agile’s not creative
Jon writes about the difficulty of maintaining an overall design vision when you’re working to an agile methodology, slicing up work into sprints.
This pairs nicely with Mark’s recent podcast episode: On Agile.
Interactive Storytelling | Codrops
I think this might be the most tasteful, least intrusive use of scroll events to enhance a Snowfallesque story. It’s executed superbly.
You can read all about the code. Interestingly, it’s using canvas to render the maps even though the maps themselves are being stored as SVG.
(There’s a caveat saying: “This is a highly experimental project and it might not work in all browsers. Currently there is no IE support.” I don’t think that’s true: the story works just in IE …that browser just doesn’t get the mapping enhancements.)