TIL: You Can Access A User’s Camera with Just HTML
The capture attribute is pretty nifty—and I just love that you get so much power in a declarative way:
<input type="file" accept="image/*" capture="environment">
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Speakers | State of the Browser 2021
All the talks from this year’s State Of The Browser event are online, and they’re all worth watching.
I laughed out loud at multiple points during Heydon’s talk.
Content Design Basics by Giles Turnbull - YouTube
This is a great series of short videos all about content design. The one on writing for humans is particularly good.
THE INTERNET — Opte
Visualising the growth of the internet.
HTML Video Sources Should Be Responsive | Filament Group, Inc.
Removing
mediasupport from HTML video was a mistake.
Damn right! It was basically Hixie throwing a strop, trying to sabotage responsive images. Considering how hard it is usually to remove a shipped feature from browsers, it’s bizarre that a good working feature was pulled out of production.
Webbed Briefs
Heydon is back on his bullshit, making extremely entertaining and occassionally inappropriate short videos about web stuff.
WEBBED BRIEFS are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. They’re packed with information, fun times™, and actual goats. Yes, it’s a vlog, but it isn’t on Youtube. Unthinkable!
The pilot episode is entitled “What Is ARIA Even For?”
Takin’ five. — Ethan Marcotte
I linked to the first of Ethan’s short videos on accessibility last week, but it’s well worth checking out all five:
Lightning-Fast Web Performance: an online lecture series from Scott Jehl
Scott is brilliant, therefore by the transitive property, his course on web performance must also be brilliant.
Redux: Lazy loading youtube embeds
Remy has an excellent improvement on that article I linked to yesterday on using srcdoc with iframes. Rather than using srcdoc instead of src, you can use srcdoc as well as src. That way you can support older browsers too!
Lazy load embedded YouTube videos - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
This is a clever use of the srcdoc attribute on iframes.
“What does that funny squiggle mean?” Playlist - BBC Ideas
¶, &, @, ‽, ☺, #, and ☛.
Sessions by Pusher
Oodles and oodles of videos of talks from London developer meetups.
Open Access at ESA
Images, videos, sounds, and 3D models are now available from the European Space Agency under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike license.
Astronaut
This is beautifully intimate. Your role is that of an anthropologist in orbit around Earth observing the everyday moments on the planet below through uploaded videos that have never been viewed by another human.
16 Web Conference Talks You Need to Watch This Holiday
Ignore the clickbaity title—you don’t need to do anything this holiday; that’s why it’s a holiday. But there are some great talks here.
The list is marred only by the presence of my talk Resilience, the inclusion of which spoils an otherwise …ah, who am I kidding? I’m really proud of that talk and I’m very happy to see it on this list.
Start Building Accessible Web Applications Today - Course by @marcysutton @eggheadio
A great series of short videos from Marcy on web accessibility.
Simon McManus - YouTube
Come for the videos of EnhanceConf. Stay for the skateboarding beagle.
Rhizome | Stories from the New Aesthetic
These three talks are worth your time.
Google can’t be trusted with our books | Simon Barron | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The threat to Google Videos shows businesses are not suitable cultural custodians — they can’t be held accountable to the public.
Cute Roulette: Cutest videos on the web
Kittens, puppies, and other baby animals on continuous rotation.