This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 229)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 229 — March 2, 2016 Do You Know These Eight HTML5 Tags? SitePoint Practical explanations and examples. Includes a look at contextual highlighting with ‘mark’, quotations with ‘q’, and more. Latest Editor's Draft of HTML 5.1 Released W3C The styling has been updated and the spec is now easier to read than ever (although it certainly isn’t bedtime reading). Introducing CSS Scroll Snap Points Sarah Drasner The CSS Scroll Snap Points spec promises to help us lock an element into the viewport on scroll without JavaScript. Support varies wildly between browsers so far though. Announcing Opbeat for AngularJS Opbeat  Sponsored Instant performance insights, built for AngularJS developers. Pinpoint performance issues with a breakdown that makes sense. Sign up for early access. Mozilla Introduces the WebVR 1.0 API Proposal Mozilla Hacks Mozilla’s VR team is working hard to support the creation and display or VR content in the browser. Casey Yee looks at what’s happening. Taking AMP for a Spin David Attard A look at Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) project, why it’s worth exploring, and a quick look at how you can convert an existing Web design to using its principles. Preload: What Is It Good For? Smashing Magazine A look at a new Web standard aimed at improving performance and providing more granular control over loading to Web developers. Introducing DevTools Reload to Firefox Mozilla Hacks Mozilla wants the DevTools in Firefox to be as hackable as the Web sites you’re working on. Reload lets you make changes to the tools themselves in real time with automatic reloading. In brief Technical Debt Slowing You Down?  Roll out features faster with Corgibytes on your team.   corgibytes SPONSOR Support for H.264 Video Codec on WebRTC in Chrome Behind Flag news  discuss-webrtc Credential Management Level 1 W3C Editor's Draft news Describes an imperative API enabling a site to request credentials from a user agent, and help the user agent store user credentials for future use.   W3C Prototyping the Custom Elements API in WebKit news  webkit-dev Webmention W3C Working Draft news A spec defining a simple way for pages to request you notify them when you link to them.   W3C An Interview with Una Kravets news Cohost of Toolsday and a developer on IBM Design’s Cloud Platform Team.   Sarah Drasner Kranky Geek WebRTC Event: Bengaluru, India (March 19) news  Kranky Geek FullStack 2016: A JS, Node and IoT Conference in London (July 13-15) news CFP is currently open if you want to speak.   Skills Matter Boost Your CSS Animation Performance with the Repaintless.css Library tutorial  Anna Migas SVG Style Inheritance and the ‘Flash Of Unstyled SVG’ tutorial  Sara Soueidan 'Squigglevision' Animation with SVG Turbulence Filters tutorial  Chris Coyier React Inline Styles and the Future of CSS video  Alex Lande Walmart's HTML, Web and CSS Style Guide opinion This is pretty epic.   Walmart Labs Infinite Scrolling, Pagination Or “Load More” Buttons? Usability Findings In eCommerce opinion  Smashing Magazine Writing A Web Component That Wraps A Standard HTML Element Might Alleviate The Need for is='' Syntax opinion  Component Kitchen A Rewrite of The 'article' Element Definition opinion  Steve Faulkner wring: Extract Content From HTML using CSS Selectors, XPath, and JS tools Extract content from webpages using CSS Selectors, XPath, and JS expressions   Ozan Sener Gulp-css-gsub: A Gulp Module to Minify CSS Classes tools  Ruslan P Visual Studio Code Introduces Chrome Debugging for JS tools news Lets you debug client-side JavaScript code running inside Google Chrome directly from Visual Studio Code.   Microsoft Pressure.js: For Working with Apple's Force Touch Functionality code Safari only for now. Your mileage may vary.   Stuart Yamartino Rubik’s Cube Explorer demo  Stewart Smith Tantalum: A 2D Ultra Light Beam Propagation Simulation demo This is everything.  Benedikt Bitterli Web Audio Arpeggiator demo  Dave DeSandro Apply to 3,000+ Jobs in 10 Minutes & 1 Application  Top companies apply to you on Hired. Get salary and equity upfront before interviewing.  Hired.com 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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