This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 209)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 209 — October 7, 2015 What's New in Chrome DevTools? Sept 2015 Edition Addy Osmani A link to a detailed, easy to navigate slide-deck, but if you have the time, there’s a video of the talk too (47 minutes). Understanding and Using 'rem' Units in CSS SitePoint When you use ‘em’, the sizes are relative to the font size of the parent element. ‘rem’, on the other hand, is always based on the ‘root’ element of a document. All you could want to know about using them is here. CORS for Concern Paul Lewis Paul reflects on the issues of building a podcast player app using Web technologies when cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) issues make it difficult to fetch third party resources without proxying. Get Access To 170+ Hours Of Front-End Development Training For $5 Frontend Masters  Sponsored 14-day $5 trial of front-end training with industry legends. Upgrade for 38% off our original price, or cancel in 10 seconds. Until September 10th at midnight ONLY. See page for details. W3C DOM4 Proposed Recommendation Published W3C The HTML Working Group has published a Proposed Recommendation of W3C DOM4, the latest version of the platform-neutral model for events and node trees. Shadow DOM W3C Working Draft Published W3C Describes a method of combining multiple DOM trees into one hierarchy and how these trees interact with each other within a document. Ecmarkup, the ECMAScript Spec's Custom HTML Louis Lazaris Development of the ECMAScript standard (the spec behind JavaScript) moved to GitHub recently and adopted its own HTML-esque markup format. HTML5 File Transfer Tools As Next Security Vector Martin Anderson Reflections on an academic paper which looks at the role of technologies like WebRTC in covert communications. Intro to WebGL with Three.js David Scott Lyons A cool code-driven Web-based slidedeck walking through some basic examples of 3D rendering on the Web. Jobs Senior UI/UX Designer in Denver, ColoradoAre you smart? Do you want to lead the User Interface rewrite of our award-winning BI product in collaboration with Zurb? Do you consider yourself an innovative leader as well as a team-player? If so then you may be a great fit for the Sr UI/UX Designer position at Motivity. Motivity Solutions (Mortgage Business Intelligence) Give back to the developer community-apply to teach today.Actively seeking web developers to join our tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties.  Pluralsight In brief Browser Trends October 2015: Sustained Safari Slips news Chrome continues to edge ahead, slightly.   SitePoint Mozilla Hacks Unveils New Design news  Mozilla Hacks Inspecting Security and Privacy Settings of a Site tutorial Mozilla now provides a developer tool that allows users to inspect the security settings of a website.   Mozilla Hacks How I Learned to Write A Chrome Extension in 5 Hours tutorial code It adds extra control to Netflix and is open source.   John Coates 5 Ways to Make Your Site Rock on the Modern Web tutorial  Noupe Performance with requestAnimationFrame video  SitePoint SVG and the DOM, or 'The Weirdest Bug I've Ever Encountered' opinion  Nicolas Bevacqua Corpus: Yet Another CSS Toolkit tools  Jamie Wilson bitcodin Adaptive Streaming Cloud-Encoding Service for MPEG-DASH and HLS tools Encode your content with the same technology as Netflix and YouTube in a way that it plays everywhere with low startup delay and no buffering. Onboard easy via API.   bitcodin Encoding Service SPONSOR stylelint: Modern CSS Linter tools  GitHub MetaRoom Markup: A Markup Language with HTML/CSS Positioning for 3D VR Elements tools A markup language that builds virtual reality 3D Web pages by using HTML and CSS styles of positioning for 3D objects.   VRcollab svg-mesh-3d: Converts an SVG Path to a 3D Mesh code Has a great demo.   Matt DesLauriers Popmotion: An Animation, Physics and Input Tracking Engine code Used to drive the motion of UIs. It has native support for CSS, DOM attributes, SVG and SVG paths.   Popmotion Ltd Video.js 5 Released: The HTML/CSS and JavaScript Web Video Library code Release notes, if you’re interested.   videojs HTML. Hired Transformed My Life.  In one week, you can have interview requests and upfront salaries from the industry’s hottest companies. What are you waiting for? Join Hired today.  Hired.com SPONSOR Uncanny Valley: A Realistic WebGL Face That Follows Your Pointer demo  Fractal Fantasy SVG Aircraft Instruments demo  geezer-x 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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