December at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web 2009 at paulcarvill.com, the home of Paul Carvill on the web

Good document by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative on getting better user involvement and feedback and thus implementing more effective accessibility solutions.

Really interesting, progressive, thoughtful stuff in this document, which takes a wide, deep look at current and future mobile usage and the challenges facing mobile development, with special regard to developing countries, rural and underprivileged areas and low-end handsets. It should be noted that "In the context of this document, the expression ' Mobile Web ' should be understood in its widest sense as accessing and interacting with Web content from a mobile phone. It is not limited to Mobile Browsing."

Interesting software licensing discussion. I think Google are actually correct in this instance, if pedantic. They only want to host truly free code and not prescribe how you should use it. I'm fine with that.

A whimsical tour of what's on Tim Difford's iPhone…

"Hunch is a decision-making site that gets smarter the more it's used.

After asking you 10 questions or fewer, Hunch will propose a concrete and customized result for hundreds of decisions of every kind: What kind of car should I buy? Should I switch to a Mac? Should I dump my boyfriend? Where should I go on vacation? Should I get a tattoo?"

"The city through the eyes of a stranger"

Nice website of a London based web designer, Inayaili de León.

Good contribution from Christian to a 2009 performance advent calendar experiment (http://www.phpied.com/performance-advent-calendar-2009/)

Ghastly Halloween costume

3,500 hours of video and 12 million stills from 75 years of British Pathe news

"You'll notice this list is a bit biased towards certain mobile platforms over others. That's not because there aren't other worthwhile apps out there, but when you're comparing apples to apples (for example, Facebook for Blackberry vs. Facebook for iPhone), there's a clear winner in terms of user interface, design, and feature set. In fact, two Blackberry users here at RWW [...] exclaimed that Blackberry users have "few options and fewer favorites," [and] that "the experience is just awful.""

Of which NYTimes.com development manager Aron Pilhofer said "Love Django but not Python? (Me me me!) Maybe Rango is for you."

What is holding JavaScript back from world domination?

* JavaScript has no module system. To compose JavaScript scripts, they must be either managed in HTML, concatenated, injected, or manually fetched and evaluated. There is no native facility for scope isolation or dependency management.
* JavaScript has no standard library. It has a browser API, dates, and math, but no file system API, much less an IO stream API or primordial types for binary data.
* JavaScript has no standard interfaces for things like Web servers or databases.
* JavaScript has no package management system that manages dependencies and automatically installs them, except JSAN (not to be confused with JSON), which falls short for scope isolation.

CommonJS is a grassroots campaign to quickly produce standards and a standard library for JavaScript.

Excellent HIV/AIDS information video from the Red Cross and the lovely Konnie Huq. Great comments too, including: "I would. I've no idea if Konnie has or hasn't but I'd be absolutely happy to give it a try sometime."

"It should be obvious to most readers of this blog that Basic Maths, the WordPress theme that Allan Cole and I released recently (and available here), is a direct descendant of the overall look and feel of Subtraction.com. [...] I thought it would be interesting to showcase some of the steps in its design evolution, and how I arrived at the theme as it stands today.