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Issue 182 — April 1, 2015
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Don’t fear – we’re aiming to be an April Fool’s free zone. Let’s hope no-one tricked us! 😉
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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.
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Sara Soueidan
Many CSS properties exist that allow us to control different aspects of an element’s background and its positioning.
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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.
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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.
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W3C News
The first W3Cx course will focus on Web design fundamentals at an intermediate level and start on June 1.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jobs
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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
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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. TopTal
In brief
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