This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 196)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 196 — July 8, 2015 Introducing Material Design Lite Addy Osmani You can use Material Design Lite to bring a Material Design look and feel to your sites. It doesn’t rely on any JS frameworks and is optimized for cross-device use. Moving to HTML5 Premium Media: An Overview Microsoft Edge Team The commercial media industry is saying bye Flash and Silverlight and hello to plugin-free HTML5-backed media players. This post goes into a great level of depth. Does It Work On Edge? BrowseEmAll Supply a URL and get a look at how it looks in Microsoft’s latest browser. Join Our Online Program for as Little as $2,780 with Need-Blind Tuition Deferral Hack Reactor Remote beta  Sponsored Students of our online immersive JavaScript coding school can now defer up to $15,000 of program fees until after landing their first job as a Software Engineer. Start your application today to attend cohorts beginning August 7th & October 5th. Creating a Sheet Reading Trainer with the Web MIDI API Scalable Minds A look at creating a webapp that renders random sheets of music then uses the Web MIDI API to monitor you playing them back. Seeing the Extensible Web Manifesto Through Bocoup Mat Marquis asks some big questions about the way Web standards are built, how general Web developers should get involved, and where we should be heading. A Privacy Analysis of the HTML5 Battery Status API [PDF] Olejnik, Acar, et al. “Our study shows sites can discover the capacity of users’ batteries by exploiting the high precision readouts provided by Firefox on Linux. [..] We present a new device fingerprinting vector based on the Battery Status API.” Publish Responsive Websites to The Windows Store with Project Westminster Microsoft Edge Team Windows 10 supports ‘Hosted Web Apps’ using the Universal Windows Platform bridge so you can publish your site or web app to the Windows Store. Native CSS Scroll Snap Points Sergey Gospodarets A new spec that allows you to create scroll snap effects natively in the browser. Mobile support is limited to Safari (with a prefix) at the moment, however. Jobs Front End EngineerCome join Truth Labs Chicago. We’re looking for engineers that have a relentless ambition for learning new technologies and putting them to work in unexpected and creative ways. Truth Labs 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 Front-End Developer at GhostGhost - the blogging platform - is in search of a front-end developer who loves creating bleeding-edge single page JavaScript applications using a modern toolset. Ghost In brief China’s Wozlla Lands $2M For Its HTML5 Game Development Platform news  TechCrunch Twitch Switches to HTML5-based Live Chat news  Twitch bitdash 3.0 Released: An HTML5 Player for HLS & MPEG-DASH news  bitmovin Streaming Media On Demand with Media Source Extensions tutorial A look at how to prep video assets for on-demand streaming by pre-processing and transcoding, as well as the MSE API.   Nick Desaulniers Using the Media Capture API tutorial  David Voyles Five JavaScript Errors That Attack Without Warning tutorial JavaScript errors that impact your apps today, without you even knowing about the problem.  David Walsh SPONSOR How We Created An Interactive Map of Europe with 100k+ Areas tutorial  Moritz Klack Augmented Reality in the Browser with Awe.js tutorial Patrick Catanzariti shows how to create an augmented reality experience within the browser using Awe.js, a Three.js based library, and your device camera.   SitePoint 10 Ways to Minimize Reflows and Improve Performance tutorial  Craig Buckler How Fast are Web Workers?  opinion An introduction to web workers, the different types available (Web, Shared and Service) and some information about their performance characteristics.   Mozilla Hacks Slimming Down The Web: Remove Code to Fix Things, Don’t Add The “Clever” Thing opinion  Christian Heilmann The Web's Cruft Problem opinion  Telerik Developer Network Over The Edge: Web Components Are An Endangered Species opinion “I always loved the idea of Web Components [..] However, in four years, we haven’t got much to show..”   Christian Heilmann Compacting Garbage Collection in SpiderMonkey    Mozilla Hacks Using Chrome DevTools to Profile The JSConf.eu Site video  Paul Lewis Deploy code from GitHub & BitBucket with ease! tools Easily deploy your code from Git, Mercurial or SVN repositories directly onto your FTP or SFTP servers. 50% off for 3 months with code HTMLWKLY  Deploy SPONSOR Web Audio API Filter Playground demo tools  Jos Dirksen Mollie: Get an Email when Activity is Detected on Your Webcam demo This is pretty cool. This simple page uses your webcam (via getUserMedia) and will drop you an email with a picture if/when motion is detected.   DropFrog Sketch-Flex-Layout: Plugin for Sketch Allowing for CSS Flexbox Layouts tools  Matej Hrescak List of 3D Map Libraries code A quick roundup of WebGL map libraries, including Mapbox GL, OSMBuildings, and Tangram.   Moritz Klack 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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