This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 208)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 208 — September 30, 2015 How To Make An SVG Lava Lamp Chris Gannon A well written and thorough tutorial that goes from doing illustrative work in Adobe Illustrator through to exporting to SVG and writing code to make the lamp ‘work’. US Government Releases Official 'Web Design Standards' US Digital Service Open source UI components and a visual style guide to create consistency and beautiful user experiences across U.S. federal government websites. They recommend using Sass, Bourbon and Neat throughout. Easy Content Organisation with HTML5 Steve Faulkner With just 5 elements (aside, footer, header, main and nav) you can provide the understanding and navigation benefits of content organisation to users who would otherwise not be able to perceive it from visual cues alone. 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 PostCSS Deep Dive: What You Need to Know Kezz Bracey “You should learn what [PostCSS] is and how to use it ASAP,” says Kezz Bracey. PostCSS is a tool that transforms CSS via JavaScript plugins and offers a lot of interesting functionality. New HTML5 Player Beta Trial for BBC iPlayer BBC - James East BBC iPlayer is one the most heavily used video on demand services in the world and they’re using the new open MPEG-DASH standard and Media Source Extensions to stream video to an HTML5 video player. Image Diffing using CSS Franklin Ta A CSS3 filter trick where you invert the colors and set opacity to 50%. Don't Let Your CDN Betray You: Use Subresource Integrity Mozilla Hacks “Using a new specification called Subresource Integrity, a website can include JavaScript that will stop working if it has been modified.” Jobs Join The Top 3% of Freelance HTML5 Developers WorldwideToptal is an exclusive network of elite freelance software engineers. Apply today to work with top clients, set your own rates, and collaborate with other top HTML5 developers. Toptal In brief Accessibility: Towards an Inclusive Web with Edge and Windows 10 news  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog Give back to the developer community - apply to teach today. news Actively seeking web developers to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties.   Pluralsight SPONSOR A Look at Firefox 41's Improvements for Developers news tools  Mozilla Hacks World’s First Conference Calls Between Chrome, Firefox, and Edge news Notes on continued developments of cross-browser WebRTC interoperability.   Peter Saint-Andre 6 Use Cases For CSS's calc() tutorial  Vincent Pickering CSS Stacking Contexts: What They Are and How They Work tutorial  Tiffany B Brown Modern Web Layout with Flexbox tutorial  Webdesigner Depot How To Do Knockout Text on the Web tutorial  Chris Coyier My Current HTML Email Development Workflow tutorial  Massimo Cassandro Exploring the 'crossorigin' Media Attribute in HTML5 tutorial  Schalk Neethling Easier HTML Refactors Through Better Selectors opinion  Daniel O'Connor What I Learned While Publishing An HTML5 Mobile App opinion  Thomas Hunter II Ad Blocking and the Future of the Web opinion “Your site may soon be collateral damage in a war between Silicon Valley superpowers.” (i.e. Google and Apple)   Jeffrey Zeldman Bootstrap Form Builder + Processing tools Easily create beautiful HTML forms styled with Bootstrap. Let our server validate and email the submissions.  Formden SPONSOR Visual Studio Emulators: Debug WebGL and HTML5 Mobile Experiences tools  SitePoint The Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Logger Extension tools A Chrome extension that logs EME events and calls to the DevTools console along with debugging information.   Sam Dutton HTML5 Background Videos: Stock HTML5 Background Video tools video  BG Stock animate.css: A Cross-Browser Library of CSS Animations code  Daniel Eden Sheets of Paper: Emulating Sheets of Paper in Web Documents code Before you get too excited, it’s mostly about the overall look and size - no effects.   delight.im postcss-write-svg: Write SVGs Directly in CSS code  Jonathan Neal Family Guy's Brian Griffin in Pure CSS demo  CodePen 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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