This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 199)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 199 — July 29, 2015 Stop Pushing The Web Forward Peter-Paul Koch Peter-Paul Koch calls for a moratorium on new browser features for ‘about a year’ in order to catch up with what we already have. I disagree with the proposal but it’s a discussion worth having. The Next Web Standard Could Be Music Notation Create Digital Music Reflections on the W3C forming a new group to work on a digital musical notation standard for the Web. There are currently two pieces to the puzzle: MusicXML and SMuFL. Font Magician: Magically Generate @font-face Rules Jonathan Neal Never write a @font-face rule again using this and PostCSS. Just use ‘font-family’ and it’ll work out the rest. In-depth performance metrics for developers Opbeat   Sponsored Opbeat have revamped their free metrics service, adding response time distributions, a full activity breakdown, and the ability to see the actual code that is slowing down the request, where is it called from & when it was committed. Read More. Interact with Bluetooth Low Energy Devices from the Web François Beaufort While not finalized, Chrome’s experimental implementation of the Web Bluetooth API lets you access nearby Bluetooth devices from Web pages. The Trello CSS Guide Bobby Grace Via a designer at Trello comes an eight part CSS guide that provides some structure for writing CSS so it stays clean and maintainable. Designing Flexible Pie Charts With CSS and SVG Smashing Magazine A tutorial from Lea Verou (extracted from her new CSS Secrets book) on the techniques behind creating dynamic pie charts without any images. What The FlexBox? A 20 Video Series on CSS Flexbox Wes Bos A slick 20 part series of videos (all on YouTube but behind an e-mail wall) on the Flexible Box Model that lets you create elaborate liquid page layouts with CSS. 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 Twitch Starts Dumping Flash for HTML5 news  Engadget Update On Standardizing Shadow DOM and Custom Elements news  Anne van Kesteren You Know How to Code, but How Are Your Design Skills? course Learn UI & UX design through part-time, online courses with 1-on-1 mentorship from expert designers.  Designlab SPONSOR Content Security Policy Level 2 Candidate Recommendation news Used to declare a set of content restrictions for a web resource, and a mechanism for transmitting the policy from a server to a client where the policy is enforced.   W3C CSS Display Module Level 3 Working Draft Published news This module describes how the CSS formatting box tree is generated from the document element tree and the ‘display’ and ‘box-suppress’ properties that control it.   W3C Phaser 2.4 Released: The Popular HTML5 and JS Gamedev Framework news  Phaser The Pragmatic Bookshelf Publishes 'Web Development Recipes 2nd Edition' news  The Pragmatic Bookshelf A Look at Length Units in CSS tutorial  Gajendar Singh Using the System Font in Web Content (on OS X and iOS) tutorial  Surfin' Safari Measuring Performance in a Service Worker tutorial  Paul Kinlan The Web is Too Low-Level opinion  Medium Vendor Prefixes And Market Reality opinion  otsukare Cross Browser Testing That Doesn't Suck tools All desktop browsers and mobile simulators running natively on your machine. 25% off with code HTMLWEEKLY  Position Fixed UG / BrowseEmAll SPONSOR Diaporama: WebGL-based Web Slideshow Engine tools code You’ve seen HTML-powered Web-based slideshows before, but this uses WebGL to take the effects to the next level.   Gaëtan Renaudeau html5tooltips.js: Light and Clean Tooltips using CSS3 Animation code  Yevhen Tiurin 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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