Two thought starters on design

[Greg Davis]

Ran across some ideas at A List Apart that might be of interest and spark some thoughts on design for now and the future.

A List Apart Blog Post http://alistapart.com/blog/post/on-our-radar-four-and-a-horse-stars

In “Death to Icon Fonts,” Seren Davies makes a strong case for using SVGs instead of icon fonts, which pose problems for people with dyslexia.
Seren provided several eye-opening examples of accessibility issues caused by icon fonts. I learned, for example, that many people with dyslexia use a special system font that breaks icon fonts.

see Death to Icon Fonts // Speaker Deck https://speakerdeck.com/ninjanails/death-to-icon-fonts

and

The web has been buzzing about WebAssembly, a portable format and execution model designed to serve as a compilation target for the web. Brendan Eich, creator of Javascript, discusses misconceptions and explains why we need WebAssembly in an interview with Eric Elliott. —Michelle Kondou, developer

see WebAssembly | Luke Wagner's Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/luke/2015/06/17/webassembly/

see Why We Need WebAssembly: An Interview with Brendan Eich — JavaScript Scene  https://medium.com/javascript-scene/why-we-need-webassembly-an-interview-with-brendan-eich-7fb2a60b0723

Greg