Reading List 362

Yikes, once again it’s been ages since I posted a reading list, as I’ve been shuttling between Brussels, London and Lawson Towers a lot. This reading list is courtesy of Vivaldi browser, who pay me decent money to fight for a better web and don’t moan at me for reading all this stuff. We’ve just released Vivaldi for Android with extension support, free from Big Tech’s snooping and its AI-pooping.

• Tetralogical: Introducing the Accessible Components Library – Everyone’s fave a11y chums open source their Accordion, Breadcrumbs, Dialog, Disclosure, Pagination, Tabs, Text input, Textarea components, and docs of assistive-tech compatibility & the applicable WCAG success criteria.
• The best way to use icons in Web UIs by Lea Verou
• Big Tech Is the Biggest Bankroller of Trump’s Ballroom – “Nvidia and Apple gave the most. Each committed $25 million …Microsoft and Palantir committed $10 million each. Amazon, Meta, Cisco, and ServiceNow gave $5 million each … $22 million came from Google’s settlement of Trump’s lawsuit”
• Call for Proposals: Interop 2027 from Igalia
• The case against JPEG XL
• Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One’s Happy
• Browser Data Portability Community Group is a W3C Community Group “to build consensus amongst web browser developers and implementers on how to meet the needs of users who wish to transfer their data between browsers”
• Child-Centered Design ^[PDF] – Save the Children’s Resource Centre
• Verify OpenAI-generated content
• I refuse to let old iPods, iPads and mobile games die and found a way to bring them back from the digital dead
• <rangegroup> proposal — Open UI
• I said no and Apple said yes
• Artificial intelligence data ‘land grab’ looms amid proposed digital changes, privacy activist Max Schrems warns
• The Intolerable Hypocrisy of Cyberlibertarianism
• Commission designates ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox under Digital Services Act*
• Confidence in U.S. Institutions Remains Near All-Time Low
• Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
• Side-Channel Leakage from the File-Notification System on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS.
  
• The Facebook Fake-out – Anil Dash
• The web needs interactive lists by Sarah Higley
• AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
• Alignment in CSS Grid Lanes by glamorous Patrick Brosett
• Character AI goes tits up
• Installing Websites Must Be Easy – draft finding by W3C TAG
• Stalling installing by Uncle Jeremy
• I am afraid my stuffed dinosaur will eat us all. He must be stopped by Matt May
• Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus
• Episode 86: The Open Web has an Apple Problem; with Gene Burrus
• GDPR-OMNIBUS Data Privacy Ranking – who is trying to boost privacy, and who is lobbying to erode it?
• Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends – I feel seen.
• Twinkleplop – I have no use for a syntax highlighter, but when I read “Twinkleplop is a syntax highlighter of unspeakable power”, I suddenly want to use it everywhere
• Definitely Not Windows — Windows 11½ – but feels very, very similar.

Until next time, Web Standards fans!