April 21, 2015 No April Fools. A look at Spartan. Background positioning in CSS. W3C’s new HTML5 course.Read this e-mail on the WebHTML Weekly Issue 182 — April 1, 2015 Don’t fear – we’re aiming to be an April Fool’s free zone. Let’s hope no-one tricked us! 😉A Closer Look At Project Spartan, Microsoft’s IE Killer The Verge The Verge takes a high level look at Microsoft’s new browser-in-progress. It looks promising but there’s a long way to go.A Primer To Background Positioning In CSS Sara Soueidan Many CSS properties exist that allow us to control different aspects of an element’s background and its positioning.HTML-GL: Get As Many FPS As You Need by Rendering HTML/CSS in WebGL Denis Radin Aims to solve the ‘slow DOM problem’ by rendering normal page elements to WebGL instead. An interesting idea but not something I’d put into production yet.Explore the 20 Year History of a DataGrid Wijmo Sponsored Tour the history of this trusted DataGrid control. See how this grid evolved from Windows 95 to HTML5 and what it looked like along the way. FlexGrid is now part of Wijmo 5, a new generation of JavaScript controls.W3C Launches HTML5 Course in Partnership with edX W3C News The first W3Cx course will focus on Web design fundamentals at an intermediate level and start on June 1.Firefox 37 Released: Media Source Extensions, display:contents, Improved Security Mozilla Firefox 37 hit the release channel yesterday and has a range of minor improvements. It now opportunistically encrypts HTTP traffic on certain HTTP/2 connections, IndexedDB is now available from worker threads, and it supports enough of MSE to use YouTube’s native HTML5 player.browser.html: An Experimental Browser Built in HTML Mozilla browser.html is a platform research project (yes, it’s solely a prototype/work in progress, not a product) closely related to Mozilla’s Servo project.An Introduction to the CSS will-change Property SitePoint A property that lets you inform the browser of what kinds of changes are likely to occur on an element so it can optimize for them ahead of time.Jobs Front End Engineer at Yelp!Join Yelp’s Front-end team and help build a modern, styleguide-driven UX for our 138 million users! We’re looking for people who love good code and working closely with design, product, and other engineers to make great features. Yelp Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO & JPMorganWork on special projects with great companies through Toptal. Set your weekly/hourly rate, and work from anywhere in the world as an elite HTML5 developer. See if you have what it takes. TopTalIn brief Announcing Forward 3 Speakers: Doug Crockford, Steve Souders, Christian Heilmann, Sarah Mei & many more news Forward Web Technology Summit SPONSOR What Do You Want From Your (Firefox) DevTools? news Mozilla Hacks What Do You Mean by “Shaders”? How to Create Them with HTML5 and WebGL A rather extensive tutorial. SitePoint Setting A Custom Ghost Image When using HTML5 Drag and Drop tutorial Stuart Langridge Blocking HTML Links with Pure CSS tutorial An interesting trick seeking a ‘why’. Juuso Haavisto The SVG Canvas, Coordinate System, And Viewport tutorial Steven Bradley The State of HTML Content Rasterization with JavaScript opinion Pixels Commander The Origin of The ‘blink’ Tag Louis J. Montulli II HTML Entities for Special Symbols Sabina Nore Modern Tooling (for W3C Standards) Capturing the state of the discussion about modernizing the tooling that supports the making of W3C standards. W3C WebRTC in Firefox 38: Multistream and Renegotiation Mozilla Hacks Fast HTML5 Charts That Work Everywhere tools Charts break when data gets big? Compatibility issues? Time to try ZingChart! See it in action. ZingChart SPONSOR Pixel Perfect 2: Extension for Firefox Developer Tools tools Enables web designers to overlay a web page with layers of semi-transparent images so they can tweak the page’s content until it matches. Mozilla Hacks TANX: Online Multiplayer Tank Battle using WebGL and Node.js demo PlayCanvas Space.js: HTML-Driven Narrative 3D-scrolling code There’s an article with some background. Patrik Göthe gulp-check-unused-css: Check Your HTML Templates for Unused CSS Classes code Zalando SE noVNC: VNC Client using HTML5 Tech with Encryption (wss://) Support. code Joel Martin RWDGrid: Responsive Grid System for your Next Project code A small (2KB) mobile-first grid system based around HTML5 Boilerplate. RWDGrid Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press.Send feedback by simply replying to this mail.Want to sponsor an issue? See our media kit.Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system.Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web© Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UKEmail policy Privacy policy Source link