Raindrop.io Bookmarks 2025-11-07

2025年11月7日

• A (kind of) farewell to the web - Web Directions

  "In a couple of weeks, we'll be holding Web Directions Summit 2025. It will likely be the last event of its kind we produce with a primary focus on front-end engineering. Three or four years ago we could attract attract healthy audiences to this kind of conference. Now it's increasingly difficult."

• What the Internet Was Like in 2001 | Cybercultural

  "In hindsight, we can say that IE6 froze the web in time -- designers began coding specifically for it, which suppressed innovation. The Mozilla browser was a promising development, but it was too bloated and buggy in late-2001. It would eventually be transformed into Firefox, but that process would take a few more years to play out."

• Why we made Affinity free, and how we'll keep it that way

  "Making Affinity free is a continuation of something that's been at the heart of Canva since day one: the belief that everyone should have access to great design tools, no matter where they live or how much they can afford."

• What Apple's UK Strategic Market Status Designation means for Browsers and Web Apps - Open Web Advocacy

  "the CMA now has the power to impose separate, tailor-made codes of conduct on each of Apple and Google in order to boost competition in digital markets."

• Shopify Needs a Mirrorfy -- Adrian Roselli

  "I wrote a bit about the scope of the ADA and the web a few years ago, with occasional updates. I did so because the ADA has been broadly misrepresented by scammers -- mostly drive-by litigants and overlay vendors. Shopify feels dangerously close to that line with its article."

• 7 focus areas as AI transforms search and the customer journey in 2026

  "To compete in 2026 and beyond, brands must optimize for visibility across every relevant platform. Here are seven key priorities and emerging trends shaping the future of search and martech."

• End of Japanese community | SUMO community discussions | Forums | Mozilla Support

  "They are all happened on the product server, not on staging server. I understand that this is mass destruction of our work and explicit violation to the Mozilla mission, allowed officially."

• Strategically Green - Building Green Software

  "Building Green Software by Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu and Sara Bergman, published by O'Reilly, is available here under a CC BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license i.e. you can read it and quote it for non commercial purposes as long as you attribute the source (O'Reilly's book) and don't use it to produce derivative works."