This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 205)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 205 — September 9, 2015 The State of Front-End Tooling – 2015 Ashley Nolan Analysis of 1044 survey responses on CSS preprocessors, task runners, JS libraries, and more. Scroll Snapping Explained Mozilla Hacks CSS scroll snapping (available in Firefox 39+, partial support in IE and Edge, and in Safari 9+) allows you to control where to stop on an overflowing element when it’s scrolled. The Future of Layout with CSS: Grid Layouts Mozilla Hacks A look at CSS Grid Layout, a relatively new W3C specification with limited but growing support (a polyfill exists, however). 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. Principles Of HTML5 Game Design Mikołaj Stolarski & Tomasz Grajewski Digging into the implementation of visual effects in Canvas-based HTML5 games. Prefetching, Preloading, Prebrowsing Robin Rendle The practice of guessing what users need so assets can be fetched ahead of time has been called ‘prebrowsing’ and it’s formed of several techniques which Robin summarizes here. A Guide To Building SVG Maps From Natural Earth Data Chris Youderian A look at creating SVG maps of any area of the world ready for Web use. ShaderFrog: Browser-Based WebGL Shader Editor ShaderFrog Create shaders with no code. Compose multiple shaders together. WebGL Stats WebGL Stats More stats than you could possibly want about native WebGL support on devices hitting a variety of sites. A WebRTC Plugin Free World is Almost Here BlogGeek.me Recent news is suggesting browser support for WebRTC without the need for plugins is coming soon. Jobs Apply to top SF & NYC startups in 60 secondsWant to spend less time job searching? Sign up to Underdog.io and startup founders & hiring managers will email you directly. You decide where to interview and where to work. Your information is kept private from current & past employers.  Underdog.io In brief Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman: A Look at the Work of a Standards Pioneer news  Web Design Ledger Updates to the Service Worker Cache API news  Jake Archibald Houdini Task Force Meeting Report news Houdini is a joint W3C TAG and CSS Working Group initiative to specify hooks into existing CSS.   Bruce Lawson CSS Cascade 4: Last Call for Comments news This CSS module describes how to collate style rules and assign values to all properties on all elements by way of cascading and inheritance.   W3C CSS WG Blog Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity tutorial  Val Head Is The Web Platform Getting Too Big?  opinion  Nicholas C Zakas The Problems with Feature Detection opinion  Niels Leenheer HTML Color Codes and HTML Color Pickers tools  Dixon and Moe bitdash HTML5 Adaptive Video Streaming Player - MPEG-DASH - HLS tools bitdash enables HTML5 adaptive streaming with no need for plugins like Flash or Silverlight. bitdash comes with a comprehensive API and custom player skins and styles.  bitdash by bitmovin SPONSOR 16 CSS Animation Tools and Frameworks tools  Paul Andrew CanvasVideoRecorder: Record Frames From HTML5 Canvas to Video tools Sends frames via XHR to a Python HTTP server that then runs ffmpeg.   zb3 Professional private code hosting for developers & teams tools Codebase offers fast & reliable hosting for Git, HG & SVN repos with project management built-in. 50% off first 3 months with code RUBYWEEKLY.  Codebase SPONSOR HTML5 Deck of Cards demo  Juha Lindstedt An HTML5 version of StarCraft code  Ryuta 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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