This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 215)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 215 — November 18, 2015 Talks from Chrome Dev Summit 2015 YouTube The Chrome Dev Summit is currently underway but the videos from day one are already up. Enjoy great talks on topics from deploying HTTPS and Service Workers to Polymer and Web Push Notifications. Loading Web Fonts with the Web Font Loader Robin Rendle The Web Font Loader gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face. A must read if you want to avoid the dreaded ‘flash of invisible text’. EdgeHTML 13, Microsoft's First Platform Update for Edge Microsoft Edge Dev Blog An automatic update to Windows 10 users, this new version of the Edge HTML rendering component brings numerous new HTML5 and CSS features (including the ‘picture’, ‘meter’, and ‘template’ elements), and scores 458 on HTML5Test. Live Online Workshops: Node, React, and JavaScript Thinkful  Sponsored Participate in live, online sessions where you learn from an advanced engineer. Learn how to build a social network with MongoDB, an audio player using React, and much more! Attend as many as you like — it's unlimited. Visual Regression Testing with PhantomCSS CSS-Tricks Comparing code outputs is one way to test Web pages are being rendered properly, but you can also compare their visual outputs to find more subtle styling issues. Using System UI Fonts in Web Design: A Practical Guide Smashing Magazine “For perhaps the first time since the original Macintosh, we can get excited about using system UI fonts. They’re an interesting, fresh alternative to web typography.” Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture Addy Osmani and Matt Gaunt A look at using a service worker-augumented ‘Application Shell’ architecture to have a cached ‘shell’ for your pages populated with dynamic content. Great article - there’s a lot to pick up here. Jobs Senior PM for TypeScript @ MicrosoftLooking for a JavaScript maverick to shape the future of TypeScript & JavaScript. Evolve the language, facilitate collaboration amongst the community, and enable devs to create great apps using TypeScript across several IDEs & editors. This is a great role for an author of a JS framework ready to make an even greater impact. Microsoft Opportunities with Amazon UI Platform Team (San Francisco & Seattle)Within the next hour, our platform will generate tens of millions of page views. And that's just in the US. Worldwide, we're used on about 90% of requests across all device categories. Amazon.com Freelance with Companies like Airbnb, IDEO, & JPMorganWork with top clients, set your own rates, and work from anywhere as an elite Toptal web developer. Join the most exclusive network of top software engineers in the world. Toptal In brief Toolsday: A New Front-End Developer Tools Podcast from IBM news  Una Kravets and Chris Dhanaraj Upcoming Workshop: Web Animation with Rachel Nabors course Animating DOM elements is crucial to developing interactive designs and interfaces, and CSS is one of the most performant ways to animate today. Join us Dec 11th.  Frontend Masters SPONSOR Firefox’s New Memory Tool tools Firefox Developer Edition 44 contains a new tool for measuring and monitoring memory use by pages.   Mozilla Hacks Recreating the Google Logo Animation with SVG and GreenSock tutorial  Petr Tichy DOM Tips and Techniques: Parent, Child, and Siblings tutorial  Louis Lazaris CSS Image Effects: Lomography tutorial code  Una Kravets WebRTC: Sending DTMF in Firefox tutorial “Through the use of WebAudio oscillators, it is possible to synthesize DTMF tones and mix them into an audio stream.”   Mozilla Hacks Receiving AWS IoT Messages in Your Browser using WebSockets tutorial  João Parreira An Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) tutorial  SitePoint Creating WebGL Components with Angular video  Aysegul Yonet Better Specifications for The Sake of The Web opinion Pointers from the W3C for spec authors.   W3C CSS in the Modern World opinion  SitePoint stack.gl: An Open Software Ecosystem for WebGL tools Built on top of browserify and npm, stackgl aims to provide modularity to working with and stacking together WebGL productions.   stackgl Goo.js WebGL Engine Goes Open-Source tools code An open source 3D engine using HTML5 and WebGL for rendering.   Goo Technologies Build Next-Generation Mobile Apps with Telerik Platform news Future Proof Your Apps. Telerik Platform 2.0 changes the game in mobile app development, enabling you to build beautiful apps with a rich user experience, fast and efficiently. Webinar Dec. 3, 2015 at 11 am ET.  Telerik 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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