Dave applies two quotes from sci-fi authors to the state of today’s web.
A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.
—Frederik Pohl
The function of science fiction is not only to predict the future, but to prevent it.
—Ray Bradbury
You can use navigator.storage.estimate() to get a (vague) idea of how much space is available on a device for your service worker caches.
I’ve been digging into CSS Grid a lot during the past week, so this post from Eric is very timely. On the surface it looks like a fairly simple use case but as you read through the explanation, it starts to become clear that the underlying thinking could be used in a lot of situations.
And, yes, like Eric, I too have been bitten by the Grid bug:
I’m working on my first redesign in a dozen years. If that doesn’t give you some sense of the power of Grid, well, I just don’t know what will.
Glenn Fleishman on the war of attrition between primes and quotation marks on the web.
The definition of the cite element (and the blockquote element) has been changed for the better in HTML5 …at least in the W3C version anyway.
The semantics of the cite element are up for discussion again. Bruce, like myself, still thinks that we should be allowed to mark up names with the cite element (as per HTML 4), and also that cite elements should be allowed inside blockquotes to indicate the source of the quote.
Let’s pave that cowpath.
I’ve been using Tumblr to store interesting quotations (and cat videos). Findings looks like it could be a good alternative for the quotations (though less good for cat videos). The Kindle integration looks interesting.
Quotably offers a nice well-ordered interface onto Twitter conversations.
Writing a presentation on web accessibility? Tired of the usual "The power of the web..." quote?