March 8, 2017


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FrontEnd Focus

Issue 280 — March 8, 2017
CSS Grid support is in the now public Firefox 52 and coming in the next Chrome release too. Eric Meyer is excited about the possibilities. Rachel Andrew has similar opinions. Want to get started? There’s lots of useful links here.
Eric Meyer


Are you using the best development tools? Is your CSS compilation complicated? A look at the lay of the land based on Ashley Nolan’s Front-End Tooling Survey.
Craig Buckler


Learn everything about the CSS Grid Module in this illustrated guide with practical examples & demos.
Hui Jing Chen


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2017 predictions for the key and rising JavaScript libraries and frameworks and JS’s New Frontiers in this whitepaper.
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A look at key innovations including CSS Grid support, an improved responsive design more, and ES7 async/await support. Prefer a complete list? Enjoy the developer release notes.
Mozilla


Create sounds right in the browser with the Web Audio API. This post does a good job of starting with the basics and showing off some demos.
Greg Hovanesyan


In just 7 minutes, Alon Zakai, originally the creator of the Emscripten LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler, explains what WebAssembly is all about.
YouTube


For the past few weeks there has been lots of talk about HTML headings in web standards circles. This insightful piece takes a very deep dive into the nature of HTML document outlines.
Amelia Bellamy-Royds


Safari 10.1 introduced the ‘Reduced Motion’ Media Query, a declaration that lets developers “create styles that avoid large areas of motion” for users that prefer that.
Eric Bailey


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In Brief

‘Web Annotation’ Now A Web Standard news

Why I Love Element Queries and You Should Too tutorial
What makes element queries powerful and how you can get started using them with the EQCSS plugin.
Tommy Hodgins

Building Web Extensions Because You Can tutorial
Benjamin Young

Using the Block-Element-Modifier (BEM) System in CSS tutorial
Tiffany Brown

How to Create A Spinning Loading Image with CSS Only tutorial
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An Interview with CSS’s Creator on Printing Web Pages story
Håkon Wium Lie talks about CSS printing, its history, and Prince (an HTML to PDF converter).
Tony Osbourn

How We Built EQCSS & Why You Should Try Building Your Own Polyfills Too story
Tom Hodgins

DRM in HTML5 Is A Victory for The Open Web, Not A Defeat opinion
The W3C’s decision will keep the Web relevant and useful.
Peter Bright

The Benefits of Learning How to Code Layouts with CSS opinion
Jen Simmons

14 Must Know Chrome DevTools and Console Tricks video
14 quick tips in 10 minutes with Wes Bos.
YouTube

Previewing Mozilla’s WebAssembly Explorer video
A look at a new tool to help developers understand and experiment with WebAssembly.
Mozilla

A 7 Minute Video Introduction to CSS Grid and the Firefox Grid Inspector Tool video
Jen Simmons

SQL Source Control: track each change to your SQL Server database tools
Get a full history in your source control system. See who made changes, what they did & why. See how.
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3 Websites for Generating SVG Patterns tools
Chris Coyier

Gutenberg: Modern Framework to Print The Web Correctly code
A sort of ‘base stylesheet’ for printing Web documents beautifully.
Fabien Salathe

Interactive Millenium Falcon WebGL 3D Model demo
Archilogic

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