HTML Weekly |
Issue 219 — December 16, 2015
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Google Developers
A new web API that lets you defer actions until the user has stable connectivity (such as sending a message or syncing data). For now it’s just in Chrome Canary behind an ‘experimental features’ flag.
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Marco Zehe
An accessibility QA engineer at Mozilla shares a list of the ‘absolute basics’ of Web accessibility every Web developer should know about.
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SitePoint
Microsoft’s Edge browser is now also available to all Xbox One users and supports things like WebGL, Web Audio and the Gamepad API.
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Frontend Masters Sponsored
Learn everything you need to build and deploy a maintainable single page app. This course covers a broad range of topics as we build an app from scratch using React, Ampersand, ES6 (ES2015), and Webpack.
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Rachel Andrew
Rachel is optimistic a reliable, cross browser CSS grid layout system is just around the corner, and shows off how it works right now (behind an experimental features flag in Chrome).
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Smashing Magazine
ally.js provides a handy way to collaborate on accessibility-related features by providing low-level tools to other libraries and frameworks as well as high-level functions to developers.
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Google
Now uses Material Design Lite, includes optional ES6 support, and includes offline support via Service Worker. This is well worth looking at, if you haven’t already.
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WebKit
WebKit includes ‘fast tapping optimizations’ so well-optimized (for scale) mobile pages can avoid the 350 millisecond delay commonly worked around by using third party libraries.
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Unity
Last year, Unity (the popular game engine) benchmarked their WebGL performance and now they’re back for another try: “Firefox 42 64-bit is currently the fastest shipping browser in most of the benchmarks.”
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Baymard Institute
HTML5 code and demos for invoking different touch keyboards depending on input type. Worth keeping in mind for the benefit of mobile users.
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Jobs
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In brief
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Tumult Hype 3.5 Released: The HTML5 Web Content Generation Tool news tools
Tumult
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Firefox 43 Released news
Nothing huge for developers (lots of little dev tools tweaks), though Firefox 64 bit for Windows is now available which showed major performance increases in a recent Unity benchmark.
Mozilla
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Self-Review Questionnaire: Security and Privacy news
A set of questions developers and engineers are encouraged to ask about the security and privacy impact of new Web features and specifications.
W3C
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Turner & Google Vets Create SpeakPage, a New Content Technology news
SpeakPage is a technology for having audio narration for Web pages, and this very blog post demonstrates the idea.
Hypepotamus
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Speedtest Launches New HTML5-Powered Beta news
A popular Flash-based connection speed testing tool is going HTML5.
Ookla
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Bringing the Power of SIMD.js to gl-matrix news
“SIMD.js can deliver major speedup to many JavaScript programs in high performance computing and the domain of multimedia.”
Mozilla Hacks
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A Look at HTML5’s ‘header’ Element tutorial
First written in 2009, but updated again yesterday.
HTML5 Doctor
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How to Build a Star Wars Intro Style CSS Animation tutorial
CSS Animation Rocks
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Decorating the Web with CSS Border Images tutorial
A look at CSS3 border customizations with border-image-source , border-image-slice and more.
SitePoint
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Creating Repeatable CSS Animations with Sass tutorial
Srinivas Rao
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Making NASA ‘Quindar’ Tones in Web Audio tutorial
You’ve heard this sound before, even if you didn’t know what it was. Output Channel
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Website Layout Tools Compared: Flexbox Vs. Susy opinion
A comparison of the functionality provided by Flexbox, as implemented natively by most browsers, and Susy, a Sass-based layout toolkit.
Smashing Magazine
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Firefox OS is Dead opinion
Peter-Paul Koch
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SVG Icons Are Easy But The Fallbacks Aren’t opinion
Matt Hinchliffe
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Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator tools
A Photoshop-like CSS gradient editor.
Colorzilla
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Build 3D CSS Transforms Without Coding tools
Webflow
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Top 9 Animation Libraries to Use in 2016 code
SitePoint
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react-flexbox-grid: React Components Implementing flexboxgrid.css code
Lee Siong Tai
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Lightsaber Escape: An HTML5 Chrome Experience demo
Use Chrome on your phone to wield a lightsaber on your desktop browser while trying to escape the Death Star.
Google and Lucasfilm
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