This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 212)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 212 — October 28, 2015 The Art of Debugging (on the Web) Remy Sharp A ton of useful insights, tips, videos, and more, on debugging issues in Web apps, front end development, etc. Guide To Using WebP Images Today: A Case Study Smashing Magazine WebP is an image format developed by Google that can provide both lossless and lossy compression. It can trump both PNG and JPEG on size at a similar quality, but Firefox, IE and Safari don’t yet support it. Keep Pushing It, With The W3C Push API Mozilla Hacks Support is still patchy (but growing) but this is a good time to check out the Push API, a mechanism for which Web apps can push notifications to a client at any time. PhoneGap Development Made Easier Telerik  Sponsored Create mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows Phone using a hyper productive PhoneGap development environment The State of Web Type Bram Stein Up-to-date data on support for typographic related features on the Web. A Microsoft Evangelist's Favorite Chrome Extensions David Voyles From a WebGL inspector and a feed reader, to a REST client and a multi-line JavaScript console. Make a Voice-Controlled Audio Player with the Web Speech API Ivan Dimov A quick guide to using the Speech Recognition API to recognize commands and play audio in the browser. Jobs Front-End Web Developer (Minnesota, USA)We're looking for an experienced front-end developer to join our team in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In this position you'll create websites using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6), Gulp and use various plugins such as Babel, Browserify, PostCSS, Autoprefixer, etc. Local candidates only please. Plaudit Don't Let The Job Search Spook YouTrolling through tons of jobs online is a scary thought. Through Hired, you can sit back while employers looking for someone with your skills and experience come to you.  Hired.com In brief Typekit Retiring Web Font Support for IE6 and IE7 news They make up only 0.204% of their traffic anyway.   Typekit New @getify Workshop: Functional-Lite to Asynchronous JS course Join us LIVE November 5th & 6th! (online or in-person)  Frontend Masters SPONSOR W3C Releases Web Developers Avenue news A new one-stop page featuring the resources and tools the W3C has for Web developers.   W3C Notes from the Future of HTML (TPAC) Meeting news A W3C meeting that took place this week.   W3C Thoughts on “Notes from the future of HTML session at TPAC” opinion Some extended thoughts on the notes linked above.   Steve Faulkner 'input' I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down opinion “Here’s a story about the ‘input’ element, how it got to be the jerk that it is, and why it needs to die in a fire.”   Monica Dinculescu Using PostCSS Together with Sass, Stylus, or LESS tutorial  Tuts+ How To Manipulate SVG Text tutorial  Steven Bradley Marking Up Measurements Correctly in HTML5 tutorial TIL that ″ and ′ are two different glyphs..   The New Code Sending HTML to Mailgun with cURL tutorial  Jonathan Palardy Using Encrypted Media Extensions for Interoperable Protected Media tutorial A look at Media Source Extensions and Encrypted Media Extensions from the Edge perspective.   Microsoft Edge Dev Blog Angled Edges with CSS Masks and Transforms tutorial  Jeremy Frank HTMLhouse: Basic Online HTML Editor and Sharing Tool tools  Write.as HTMLMinifier: JavaScript-Based HTML Compressor/Minifier code tools  Juriy Zaytsev 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 SPONSOR 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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