This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 200)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 200 — August 5, 2015 HTML5 Privacy Hole Left Users Open to Tracking Wired A writeup about how the precision in values provided by the Battery Status API could be used to track users who otherwise didn’t want to be tracked. If you want more detail, here’s the academic paper (PDF) behind it. If We Stand Still, We Go Backwards Jake Archibald Chrome developer advocate Jake Archibald argues that the modern Web isn’t more complicated to code for but that users have higher expectations and halting technological advancements is not a worthwhile strategy. Cutting the Mustard with CSS Media Queries SitePoint A method that involves checking for browser capabilities before loading further CSS and JavaScript to give the user an enhanced experience. Get a Free Week's Worth of Training From the Masters Frontend Masters  Sponsored Get access to your choice of a full-week of in-depth video lessons. Choose from either Introduction to Web Development, Angular, or Advanced JavaScript -- completely free! Clear Site Data: A W3C First Public Working Draft W3C Defines a mechanism to allow web developers to instruct a user agent to clear a user’s locally stored data related to the current host and its subdomains. Advanced CSS Filters Vincent De Oliveira A look at two cutting edge CSS filter features: backdrop-filter, and a filter specifically for backgrounds only. Responsive Design for Personalised Subtitles BBC R&D A (PDF) paper describing a new approach to displaying subtitles alongside HTML5 video content in a responsive manner. Quiz: Do You Understand Semantic HTML? Tuts+ You like quizzes, right? This one’s only 9 questions long. Pointer Events Now in Firefox Nightly Mozilla Hacks Pointer events are now supported in the nightly builds of Firefox. Check out this article for details and how to use the API. Jobs Intercom is looking for Software Engineers for our product team in Dublin, IrelandDo you obsess about the quality of the work you produce and know how to use the right tools and technologies for a problem? Join our exceptional team, we offer relocation and work permit application assistance. Intercom Front End Engineer Storefront is a well-funded, online marketplace looking for a talented front-end engineer excited to build customer-facing features and solve cool problems. Want to be apart of the Pop Up Shop phenomenon? If so, apply today through AngelList. Storefront Apply to top SF & NYC startups in 60 secondsWant to spend less time job searching? Apply to Underdog.io and startup decision-makers will email you directly. You decide where to interview and where to work. No risk. Your information is kept private from current & past employers. Underdog.io In brief Using Asm.js and WebGL for Unity and Unreal Engine news opinion A good overview of how the technologies have been tied together.  SitePoint Want to share your developer expertise with a global audience? Apply today. news Actively seeking web developers to become Pluralsight authors. Great opportunity to earn royalties and give back to the web development community.   Pluralsight SPONSOR Web Inspector Interface Changes news Some key changes to WebKit’s developer tools are now in in WebKit Nightly Builds and the Safari 9 beta.   Surfin' Safari YouTube Makes New HTML5-based Desktop Player Available to Everyone news  Engadget Opera 31 Released news Also includes what’s new in the release (and also Chromium 44, upon which it is based).   Dev.Opera Making and Breaking the Web With CSS Gradients tutorial  Mozilla Hacks Responsive Solutions for Feature Comparison Tables tutorial  SitePoint How to Become a Great Front-End Engineer opinion Written by an engineer from Google.   Philip Walton Microsoft Edge Review: Windows Finally Has A Good Browser opinion  The Verge CSS: Why We Need Localized Constants opinion  James Coleman 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 Super Mario World Implemented in a WebGL Shader demo  Krzysztof Narkowicz A 3D Audio Visualization with Three.js and Web Audio API code demo  Neri Barnini jquery.stacky: Easy Stacking of Panels using jQuery code A jQuery plugin that gives you the ability to open panels horizontally on demand.   Miguel Jiménez MediaElement.js: HTML5 Video and Audio Player code  John Dyer react-dropzone: Simple HTML5 Drag-Drop Zone in React.js code  Param Aggarwal 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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