This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 242)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 242 — June 1, 2016 CSS at BBC Sport Shaun Bent The CSS foundation of the BBC’s popular sports site is under 9kb. This in-depth review looks at the performance decisions behind their approach to CSS. Multirange: A Polyfill for HTML5.1 Two-Handle Sliders Lea Verou Lea Verou noticed in the latest HTML specs that ‘slider’ controls have many cool features that aren’t widely implemented, so she’s produced a polyfill for one. CSS in 2016 and Beyond Christian Vuerings A 17 minute talk looking at things like CSS modules, variables, custom selectors and tools to let you use them right now. The Sequel to Our Popular Angular 2 Course: Reactive Angular 2 Frontend Masters  Sponsored Learn how to build functional, reactive web applications in Angular 2 with a Redux inspired library, @ngrx/store and observables from Rx.js. Considerations for Styling the 'pre' Tag Chris Coyier Used for ‘preformatted text’ like code listings, the ‘pre’ tag throws up some special formatting concerns you need to consider. Position Wanted: Front-End Director Jeffrey Zeldman “We have creative directors and design directors, but we don’t seem to have any front-end directors. And maybe we should.” Show Them What You Got Jake Archibald At Render 2016, Google’s Jake Archibald stressed the importance of getting Web content rendered ASAP and some of the new Web technologies that can help. CSS Grid Layout and Positioned Items Manuel Rego Casasnovas Positioned grid items have some special features, explained in this handy post that’s ideal for any working with CSS Grid already. Smart Responsive Design Patterns (or When Off-Canvas Isn't Good Enough) Vitaly Friedman A look at responsive design patterns such as mega dropdown navigation, content grids, maps and charts, and responsive art direction. Jobs Replay Gaming are seeking a full-time, senior-level JavaScript developerWe are looking for a full-time, senior-level JavaScript developer to work remotely & help us grow our poker site. If you’ve worked professionally with Backbone.js & React, we want to hear from you. Apply here. Replay Gaming Work on a Better Stack!On Hired, engineers typically get 5+ job offers in 1 week. Find that new opportunity you've been craving and get access to 3,500+ companies instantly. Hired.com In brief Make Dashes in HTML Comments No Longer Cause Parsing Errors? news Tweaks being considered for WHATWG’s HTML standard.  WHATWG Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 (Amsterdam, NL) news Two days of talks, labs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web.  Google Rangle’s Online Angular 2 Training: Now Free course Master RESTful API's, ES6, TypeScript and more with the experts who developed the Angular 2 debugging tool, Augury. Attend remotely or in person as it suits the needs of you and your team.  RANGLE.IO SPONSOR Single Character Transforms with CSS and JS tutorial A look at how to animate individual characters using CSS animations.  Simon Codrington Make Your Own Responsive SVG Graphs and Infographics tutorial  Alex Walker Building Animated Covers for Video with Sprites tutorial A large JPEG sprite sheet proves more efficient than an animated GIF.  Kawandeep Virdee CSS Coding Techniques tutorial Tips for writing better, easier-to-maintain CSS code.  Belén Albeza 5 Ways to a Sticky Footer tutorial  Chris Coyier A Walk Through an Effective Way to Debug CSS tutorial  Ben Frain Ways You Can Tell The Browser How To Optimize tutorial The CSS will-change and contain properties, and responsive image attributes.  Chris Coyier SVG in Motion video  Sara Soueidan What's New in Chrome 51 for Developers video 3 minute video on Intersection Observers, Passive Event Listeners and the Credential Management API.  YouTube 5 More Awesome New Mozilla Technologies opinion Tofino, AFrame, Dev Toolbar, Platform Status, and pdf.js.  David Walsh Stop Painting and Have A Meaningful Interaction with Me opinion “Time to First Meaningful Interaction” seems more useful than merely how quickly bytes arrive to the browser.  Dion Almaer The Aural UI of HTML Elements tools A large demonstration of how various HTML elements are rendered in audio by screen readers.  Steve Faulkner and Léonie Watson A Collection of Web Safe CSS Font Stacks tools  CSS Font Stacks Flex Layout Attributes (FLA) tools Two custom HTML attributes (layout and self) you can use as shortcuts for flexbox style layout direction.  ProgressiveRed ClosestColor: Analyzes Your CSS for Close Color Matches tools Instead of adding yet another color to your CSS, find the closest existing one to reuse.  ClosestColor Lightning fast SSD hosts for your HTML5 project tools Host your HTML5 site on Linode servers - the fastest VPS hosts available. Use code HTML520 for $20 credit.  Linode SPONSOR WebGazer.js: Democratizing Webcam Eye Tracking in the Browser code  Brown HCI Group Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Want to post a job? E-mail us or use our self-serve system. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web Published by Cooper Press Ltd. Office 30, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

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Dependency Management in iOS with Carthage

Carthage helps you install dependencies for your project and dependencies of those dependencies. If you install package A, that package may depend on package B, which may depend on package C. If you install package D it may depend on package C, but on a different version. Finding the appropriate version is a job that package managers handle for you.

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This Week in Mobile Web Development (#110)

Read this on the Web Mobile Web Weekly June 1, 2016   #110 Brian Rinaldi recommends State of The Mobile Gap Between Native and Web — What is the current state of the gap between the the mobile web and native apps? Remy gives his take. Remy Sharp Brian Rinaldi recommends Smart Responsive Design Patterns, Or When Off-Canvas Isn't Good Enough — This article features some of the slightly more obscure design patterns, such as responsive car-builder interfaces, mega dropdown navigation, content grids and charts, as well as responsive art direction. Vitaly Friedman Holly Schinsky recommends Sticky Footer, Five Ways — Five different ways to create a sticky footer in your app to ensure it “sticks” to the bottom of the browser window. Chris Coyier Sponsored The Easiest Way to Find a Job — Hired lets you sit back while job offers come to you. When you complete your profile, instantly apply to 3,500+ companies on the platform who will contact you with job offers, including salary and equity up-front. Try it today. Hired.com Peter Cooper recommends Progressive Web App Dev Summit 2016 — The summit (in Amsterdam later this month) will be two days of talks, codelabs and access to the Chrome engineers to discuss the future of the web. Google Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile Ad Blocking Rose 90% Last Year, Report Says — The number of smartphone owners using ad blocking software has risen by 90 percent over the past year, according to a new report, reaching nearly 420 million people worldwide. Amar Toor Holly Schinsky recommends Another Tool to Make Mobile Web Debugging Easier — Eruda is a new DevTools like console for mobile browsers to help debug your apps directly on your device. Surunzi Chris Brandrick recommends Google to Boost Mobile Web Speed on Apple Devices — Readers who search for news on Google’s iOS app will now get select articles faster (thanks to AMP). Jonathan Vanian Brian Rinaldi recommends Installing Ionic to Build Hybrid HTML5 Apps Mark Brown Holly Schinsky recommends Building a Cross Platform, Salesforce Powered, Contact List App — A sample contact list app tutorial that authenticates with Salesforce.com via OAuth, performs a SOQL query and populates a list with contacts from the SFDC cases. Chad Tetreault Holly Schinsky recommends Web Developers Looking to Get Into The Mobile Space? — An hour long talk on Ionic and the evolution of a hybrid framework. Sani Yusef Chris Brandrick recommends Mobile UX Design: The Right Ways to Ask Users for Permissions — Permission strategy depends on the clarity and importance of the permission type you are requesting. Nick Babich Brian Rinaldi recommends Converting Your Ionic 2 Mobile App to NativeScript — Both frameworks use Angular 2 and TypeScript, so Nic explores how easily you can make the move. Nic Raboy Brian Rinaldi recommends Rise of Ad-Blocking Software Threatens Online Revenue — 1 in 5 smartphone users block ads when browsing the web on phones. NY Times Holly Schinsky recommends Elixel attends: PhoneGap Day EU 2016 — A recap of PhoneGap Day EU 2016 from Christian Cook of Elixel. Elixel Holly Schinsky recommends How to Renew All Your Project's Cordova Plugins At Once — Updating your Cordova app project to get the latest platform specific support is a periodic task that could be made easier by following this tip. EeKay's Blog Holly Schinsky recommends ConfiGAP 2.0a Released — A new version of ConfiGAP was recently released to help you configure your mobile apps with PhoneGap Build. Chris Griffith Brian Rinaldi recommends NativeScript Android Application Package Size Revealed — A look at the architecture behind the NativeScript Android runtime and how it impacts the package size. Georgi Atanasov Sponsored Try RASON™ – RESTful Analytic Solver™ Object Notation for Web/Mobile Apps — Solve powerful optimization simulation models in your app easily with RASON®. Use a high-level modeling language embedded in JSON, a simple, Azure-backed REST API. RASON.com by Frontline Systems Inc Curated by Brian Rinaldi and Holly Schinsky for Cooper Press. Cooper Press is located at Office 30, Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK Update your email address or stop receiving MWW here

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Seedlip

Absolute jaw-dropping design in this One Pager promoting 'Seedlip' - the world's first non-alcoholic spirits. The Single Page website is build into the Shopify framework with a slick off-canvas shopping cart integration. There is so much to love in this site; the whitespace, the stunning product shots (not to mention that branding), the cocktail recipe slider with downloadable PDF and this complementary typography blend of 'Brown' and 'Baskersville' fonts. Possibly the most gorgeously designed One Pager we've featured this year. Top work this by Rotate° from London!

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Turntable.js – Responsive jQuery Slider

Turntable.js is a responsive jQuery slider that will let you rotate through a list of images as your mouse (or finger) sweeps across a container.

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