Sat.Nov 02, 2013 - Fri.Nov 08, 2013

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Long Term Web Semantics

Alex Russell

Something irks me about the phrase “semantic HTML” The intent is clear enough — using HTML in ways that are readable, using plain language to describe things. But that’s not what “semantic” means. We might as well be saying “well written” or “copy edited” They’d be closer fits. What we describe today as “unsemantic markup” isn’t really; there is actual meaning to end-users, but it is conveyed with long-winded mar

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Avoiding the 300ms click delay, accessibly

Tim Kadlec

On touch devices, a click event has a 300ms delay before firing. The reason for this the delay is that browsers need that buffer to make sure you aren’t going to double-tap on anything. The result is that if you use click events blindly, that delay creates a noticeable lag as users interact with elements on your page. There has been a Google + post by Rick Byers floating around the last few days claiming the best way to deal with the delay was to eliminate the double-tap zoom altogether.

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New weekly emails

Speed Curve

I've redesigned the weekly email reports to provide more trending information so you can compare week on week performance improvements. They're nice simple visualizations for forwarding around your whole team. Let me know what you'd like to see added to these emails.