This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 192)

The state of Web Components, how Mozilla plans to bring VR to the Web, and is HTML 'done'? Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 192 — June 10, 2015 The State of Web Components Mozilla Hacks Web Components were first introduced to the world at Google IO 2012 but are still considered on the cutting edge. Wilson Page of Mozilla looks at what Web Components are, why they’re useful, and why they’re still not everywhere. 'I Think HTML Is Done' Tim Bray “The W3C HTML Work­ing Group char­ter is ex­pir­ing; dis­cus­sion on what to do is in­con­clu­sive; things are pret­ty qui­et in the WhatWG. Con­clu­sion: The best thing to do about HTML is noth­ing.” Building a Media Source HTML5 Player with Adaptive Streaming Wirewax A now complete four part series digging deep into creating a Media Source Extensions-based player which can buffer video and also switch between different renditions on demand. Online Workshop: Building Modern, Single-Page Web Applications Frontend Masters  Sponsored Build a clean, well-structured web app from scratch by combining best-of breed approaches and a carefully curated set of tools including: Ampersand, React, WebPack, ES6 and Node.js. Why Edge? Telerik Developer Network Why did Microsoft choose the name Edge over Spartan for its new browser? Burke Holland explains that it's all about the blue E. Making Music in the Browser with the Web MIDI API Keith McMillen Instruments Enabled in the latest Chrome, the Web MIDI API is here to play with. Here’s a quick look at how to do that from JavaScript. Overview of HTML5 Standardization Activities Erik Wilde Links to all of 120 APIs and specs under development as part of the ‘HTML5’ moniker. How Mozilla Plans to Build VR Into the Web's Foundations Road to VR Two members of Mozilla’s MozVR research team look at how VR can become ‘native’ on the Web. Jobs Want to work on new projects? Make more money? Try a new stack? Relocate?On Hired, we'll bring the options to you. With over 2,000 pre-screened tech companies in 10 cities in the US & UK, you'll be sure to find what you're looking for. Join Hired today. Hired.com In brief 'Beginning HTML5 Media' Book Available on Preorder news  Amazon Want to share your developer expertise with a global audience? Apply today. news Actively seeking web developers to join our tight knit family of teachers and earn royalties.   Pluralsight SPONSOR Mozilla's CTO, Andreas Gal, is Leaving news  Andreas Gal Opera 30 Released news  Opera HTML5's 'details' Element tutorial Anything in ‘details’ is rendered behind a drop-down toggle with text supplied by an optional ‘summary’ element.   Max Stoiber Importing CSS Breakpoints Into JavaScript tutorial  Lullabot Things I've Learned About Building and Coding HTML Email Templates tutorial A lot of useful tips, tricks, and workarounds.   Lee Munroe Review of Current HTML5 Bugs as of June 2015  A rough review from one engineer on the Microsoft Edge team.   Adrian Bateman Ask HN: What Tools Do You Use to Build HTML Emails? opinion  Hacker News BackstopJS: Catch CSS Curve Balls tools BackstopJS is a config-driven automated screenshot test component.   Art.com Labs 12 Tools for Creating Animations with HTML5 tools  CodeCondo How to find and fix the slowest code in your .NET application tools Find bottlenecks in your code or database & boost performance with new ANTS Performance Profiler 9. Try free.  Red Gate Software SPONSOR Flash2Svg v3.13: An Animated SVG Exporter for Flash Pro  tools Warning: autoplays an example animation with sound.  Thomas Byrne J2C: JavaScript to CSS Compiler tools code A CSS preprocessor based around JavaScript objects; provides a subset of Sass.   Pierre-Yves Gérardy Pa11y 2.0 Released: Automated Accessibility Testing with PhantomJS tools  Nature Publishing Group Destroy With Science - Quantum Loop video demo A video of someone using two Novation Launchpads with Loop Drop, a Web MIDI and We Audio based MIDI looper and synth.   Matt McKegg lightgl.js: A Lightweight WebGL Library code Designed for quick prototyping of WebGL apps, while being lower level than most other WebGL libraries.   Evan Wallace 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, UK Email policy Privacy policy

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