This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 207)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 207 — September 23, 2015 Let’s Write a Web Extension Mozilla Hacks WebExtensions provides a new way to write Firefox extensions, but the API is mostly compatible with Chrome’s extension API bringing cross-browser extensions a step closer. This tutorial walks through building one. A Blind Accessibility Expert on Web Accessibility Adobe A variety of insights from Bartek Lenarth, an accessibility expert from Poland, on what elements of Web design particularly matter for the blind. Firefox 41 Released: Several New Web APIs Go Live Mozilla The MessageChannel, MessagePort, and CSS Font Loading APIs are enabled by default. A Cache API has also been implemented. Send email using the Mailgun API Mailgun  Sponsored Easy SMTP integration and a simple, RESTful API abstracts away the messy details of sending transactional or bulk email. Scale quickly, whether you need to send 10 or 10 million emails. Start sending email now with Mailgun The Comprehensive List of What Forces Layout/Reflow Paul Irish A list of the various properties and methods which when requested or changed from JavaScript will trigger a costly layout refresh (a.k.a. layout thrashing or reflow). Creating UIs for the Web Audio API SwissJS 2015 Kicking off with a jazzy musical demonstration, Stephen Band leads into a 30 minute talk on working with user interfaces (both visual and hardware) for handling audio in the browser. ORTC (Object RTC) API Is Now Available in Microsoft Edge Microsoft Edge Dev Blog A preview version of an ORTC API implementation is in the latest Windows Insider Preview release. (ORTC essentially provides a more programmatic JavaScript based API to RTC functions than WebRTC presently does.) Jobs Frontend Developers at X-Team (Remote)We're looking for experienced frontend developers. The perfect candidate would be highly skilled in different frameworks and libraries. We are 100% remote and we provide the funding needed to help you achieve your goals and grow as a remote developer. X-Team 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 CSS Basic UI 4, CSS Text 4 & CSS Round Display 1 Working Drafts Published news  W3C Interested in building a mobile app? news video Learn how to move from mobile app idea to deployment, fast. Watch the webinar.  Telerik SPONSOR Chrome to Remove SMIL Animation Support news If this affects you, this is the place to be heard.   Tobi Reif on Twitter HTML5 Looks Good in Light of Google, Facebook and IAB Moves news  Carl Weinschenk Facebook Will Accelerate Adoption of Web Push Notifications news  Karly Cyr The Self-Taught Web Developer's Guide to Landing Your First Job news A paid e-book for career-seeking webdevs.   Ken Rogers GitHub Enables Subresource Integrity for CDN Assets news Uses a new browser technology called Subresource Integrity.   GitHub Engineering Stereoscopic Rendering in WebVR tutorial WebVR brings the Web and the Oculus Rift VR headset together.   Mozilla Hacks Building a HTML5 Control Surface for Ableton Live tutorial Live is an awesome music sequencer and digital audio workstation.   Vincent Alsteen The Web Audio API: Make Your Own Web Synthesizer tutorial A quick tutorial on building a simple browser-based synth with the Web Audio API.   Stuart Memo 25 Tutorials for Developing HTML5 Web Browser Games tutorial  Web Design Wheel Getting Responsive Tables to Behave  Responsive table CSS based upon a solution from CSS Tricks but with some significant variations.   Joshua Hibbert Customising Cross-Browser Range Inputs with CSS and JavaScript tutorial  Steven Estrella Dealing with Long Words in CSS tutorial  Just Markup New Animation Inspector Features in Firefox 43 video  Patrick Brosset 8 Reasons Why I'm Glad I Switched to the Ionic Framework opinion  Josh Morony Understanding Versions in An Evergreen Browser opinion Some insights into Edge’s versioning scheme.   Microsoft Edge Dev Blog Building an Enterprise CSS Framework opinion  Salesforce UX Base64 File Encoder: Drag a File On, Get Base64 Back Instantly tools  Jaime Pillora latex-to-html5: LaTeX Documents to HTML5 Conversion Tools tools  Stefan Marr flowchart.js: Draws SVG Flow Chart Diagrams from Textual Representations code  Adriano Raiano 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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