This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 213)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 213 — November 4, 2015 HTML5 on the Rise: No Longer Ahead Of Its Time TechCrunch ‘Today marks the anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete’ and other reflections on HTML5’s maturity. Flexbox For Interfaces All The Way Smashing Magazine A look at how a webapp leant on layout patterns well suited to the Flexible Box Layout (flexbox) system now supported by most browsers. DevTools Challenger: Explore Firefox's Animation Tools Firefox Some hands-on exercises with all of Firefox’s new visual design tools. Fun stuff. 4-Day Workshop: Algorithms and Data Structures in JavaScript Frontend Masters  Sponsored This is a practical class is for students who are very comfortable with the JavaScript language but want to level up on their Data Structures and Algorithms knowledge. Join us Nov 17-20th online or in-person. The Front-End Handbook Cody Lindley Telerik’s Cody Lindley has produced a guide for ‘anyone to learn the practice of front-end development’ made up of brief insights and curated links. ResponsiveVoice.js: Cross-Platform Text-to-Speech Learnbrite Designed to add voice features to sites and apps across all major platforms. It supports 51 languages and has no dependencies. We had a lot of fun playing with this, but be aware of the licensing. The Image Replacement Museum Marie Mosley CSS image replacement is the technique of replacing a text element with an image. This post looks at the long line of techniques that have been used to implement it over the years. The Simple Way to Scrape an HTML Table: Google Docs Robert Kosara Google Docs supports pulling in HTML table into a spreadsheet using a single =ImportHtml expression. So How Does The Browser Actually Render A Website? Ryan Seddon A 30 minute talk from JSConf EU 2015 coupled with slides. Jobs Want to spend less time job searching? Apply to the best startups in 60 seconds.If you’re accepted, startup decision-makers will email you as soon as next Monday. You decide where to interview and where to work. Now open in SF, NYC, and remote. Join the Underdog.io platform today! Underdog.io In brief 'The HTML5 spec has 609,160 words in it. That's longer than Infinite Jest.' news  Paul Ford Goo Create Adds Support for Bringing HTML into WebGL Scenes news tools If you thought you included WebGL in an HTML document, well.. now think about including HTML documents inside your WebGL scenes as well..   Goo Create How Google’s AMP Project Speeds Up The Web - by Sandblasting HTML news  Ars Technica Which Input When? tutorial A look at which form input types to use in certain contexts.   Morgan Carter Animating the `content` Property tutorial  Robin Rendle How to connect to a MySQL database with JavaScript tutorial With the DreamFactory REST API platform, database connections for web apps are a breeze. In this tutorial, we lay out how to build a simple address book with MySQL, DreamFactory, and JavaScript.  DreamFactory SPONSOR How To Style and Position SVG Text With The tspan Element tutorial  Steven Bradley Your First Offline Web App  Learn how to integrate a service worker into an existing application to make it work offline.   Google Developers Bouncing Ball Game using HTML5 Canvas Element - Part 1 tutorial  Hemant Joshi Three Years with CSS Grid Layout opinion  Rachel Andrew Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing opinion tools  Smashing Magazine img2css: Convert Any Image to A Pure CSS Image tools A tool that converts an image into an element with a colored CSS shadow for every pixel. Beware - this gets highly inefficient with images that aren’t small.   Javier Bórquez canvid.js: Tiny Library to Play 'Videos' on Canvas Elements code Essentially plays many small JPEG frames. Helps get around autoplay restrictions of videos.   Gendy.js: A Module for Dynamic Stochastic Web Audio Synthesis code  Andrew Bernstein and Ben Taylor Discover 52 tips to improve your .NET performance  Our new eBook features dozens of tips and tricks to boost your .NET performance. Download your free copy.  antsperformanceprofiler SPONSOR Google Web Font Inspiration in HTML and CSS demo  Tobias Ahlin WebGL-powered Starmap for Star Citizen demo A beautiful use of WebGL, based on a forthcoming space game by the creator of Wing Commander.  Roberts Space Industries 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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