Web
It connects people
The Web does not just connect machines, it connects people. Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, in his Speech Before the Knight Foundation
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Artificial intelligence
So powerful and widely available now that it's a commodity
I argue that the ability for a model to spit out a full HTML+JavaScript custom interface is so powerful and widely available now that it’s a commodity. Simon Willison summarizing What’s new in the world of LLMs
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The best practice for the modern web
The best practice for the modern web is to let people manage their own windows and tabs. Marco Arment, on Forcing links to open in new windows: an argument that should have ended 15 years ago
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What your links say, can say a lot about your site
What your links say, can say a lot about your site. Why Your Links Should Never Say “Click Here” - UX Movement
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Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can
Aim to become as big of a traffic referrer as you possibly can — not only is that good policy, but it’s a great business asset. Dan Frommer, on better blogging which would be good advise for all (online) publishers
If you can build it in HTML
If you can build it in html, css and javascript, then you should. If you can’t, then you shouldn’t. Jonathan Stark on whether to build a phone or tablet app using html, css and javascript, or code it in Objective C / Java. (Google Books)
The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers
The problem isn’t that magazines and newspapers are greedy or badly run, but that the demand for their content and the economics that fund it have shifted so far away from what they do. Marco Arment, visionairy software developer, concluding his blogpost The New-World Economy of a Modern Magazine
The fact that it's easy to write web pages
The fact that it’s easy to write web pages doesn’t mean that it’s easy to produce a good mobile app using HTML Tom Hume, on the cost of cross-platform web apps, taking the Financial Times’ web app as an example.
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De URL is het document
De URL is het document. Arjen Kamphuis in zijn column over documentformaten, Its a trap! (Wayback Machine)
Mobile
Downloading an app
As more and more business mobile optimize their websites, downloading an app in order access businesses is going to seem archaic VentureBeat, in favor of web apps and why The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010
Writing interface language is like
Writing interface language is like writing dialog for a play. You want to make it clear who is speaking at all times. Erika Hall explains why not to use My in UI’s, in Super Unsuck It! Bye-Bye, My.
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Everything about web architecture
Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and render content, but most importantly the web is formed where all of that content is linked together. Ben Ward, Understand The Web