Raindrop.io Bookmarks 05/29/2025
- Generative Engines Are Breaking Web Analytics and Hurting Their Future
"Search is moving from traditional search engines to generative engines, but traffic from many of these sites isn't being tracked properly in analytics. It's their fault, not yours."
- The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen | Cybercultural
"With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability."
- Notes from Green IO Singapore 2025 - Green Web Foundation
"It's worth acknowledging that a lot of the digital sustainability conversation remains heavily centered in Europe and the United States. And that, as someone living in Asia, can often mean missing out on certain events and conversations just because the of the time difference."
- Letter to Arc members 2025
"Traditional browsers were built to load webpages. But increasingly, webpages -- apps, articles, and files -- will become tool calls with AI chat interfaces."
- Is Web Development Dying? Here's Why We're Standing
"The real question is whether it understands your client. Their brand. Their weird niche. The audience they're desperately trying to reach while shouting into the void of Instagram reels and SEO trends they definitely don't understand."
- A Deep Dive into the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025 - Karl Groves
"The Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act of 2025 is an ambitious attempt to finally codify digital accessibility as a legal right."
- Are you sure that table isn't a list? - tempertemper
"So WCAG is okay with data tables scrolling horizontally. This makes sense, since the point of a table is for the data to be relational and comparative."