This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 231)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 231 — March 16, 2016 HTML: What’s Next? W3C Some insights into what the Web Platform Working Group (which has responsibility for W3C’s HTML spec) has been doing with HTML and its future plans. Using Textured Gradients in Pure CSS Oliver Rivo Go beyond simple linear and radial gradients with something less predictable, using a small base64-encoded SVG directly within your CSS. Angular 2 and the Future of HTML5 Apps O'Reilly Media Brad Green’s keynote from Fluent on how new techniques are making it easy to use advanced browser features like Web Workers, HTTP/2, and service workers. Upcoming CS & React/Redux Workshops with Brian Holt (Netflix) Frontend Masters  Sponsored Two upcoming workshops: Four Semesters of Computer Science in Six Hours Workshop on March 23rd for self-taught devs 2 Day: Complete Intro to React Workshop on March 24th-25th to learn React/Redux. Legal Guidelines for the Use of Location Data on the Web Smashing Magazine A workflow for working with location data using best practices, providing users with privacy-friendly options, and working with a regard for the law. Experimental Support for WebAssembly in Multiple Browsers Mozilla Hacks WebAssembly is an emerging standard with a goal to define a safe, portable, size- and load-time efficient binary compiler target with near-native performance. WebGL Insight: WebGL Debugging Chrome Extension Parallax A rich WebGL debugging toolkit for productive WebGL development and building more efficient WebGL apps. Use 'rem' for Global Sizing; Use 'em' for Local Sizing CSS-Tricks Robin Rendle explains a process for building stylesheets for a responsive site that uses both em and rem to give more control at the module level. How to Create Instagram-style Filters in HTML5 Nate Hunzaker Exploring using an HTML5 Canvas to recreate Instagram-style filter effects. Includes lots of code and CodePen examples. In brief What's New in Chromium 49 and Opera 36 news Mostly ES6 related features, but also CSS Custom Properties.   Mathias Bynens Web Notification Improvements Coming to Chrome news Four changes to web notifications coming in Chrome 50, including custom icons.   Paul Kinlan Experimental Support for WebAssembly in V8 news  Seth Thompson Web Animation Improvements Coming in Chrome 50 news A brief round-up of the changes coming to the Web Animations API.   Alex Danilo Parallax Burns: Converting Photos from 2D to '3D' with SVG tutorial  Alex Walker 8 Tips to Write CSS You Won't Hate tutorial A handful of tips on writing clean, maintainable CSS.   Taha Shashtari How to Make Floating Input Labels With HTML5 Validation tutorial  EnvatoTuts+ On CSS :not and Specificity tutorial  Ire Aderinokun Prioritizing Your Resources with  tutorial  Jeff Posnick Cleaning Up a CSS Codebase tutorial Looking at linting, structure, and simply smart CSS practices.   Hugo Giraudel Debugging Service Workers and Push with Firefox DevTools tutorial  Mozilla Hacks Understanding Socket.IO tutorial A brief introduction to a long standing library for realtime communication in Web apps.   Grigor Khachatryan Animated CSS Highlighting on Hover State tutorial A neat trick.   Wes Bos Dreamfactory simplifies data connections for web apps tools Free and open source, DreamFactory automatically generates REST APIs from nearly any data source. We'll even host it for you for free.  DreamFactory SPONSOR snapline: Convert Chrome Timeline Screenshots to GIF tools  Pierre-Marie Dartus Strips.css: Sass Mixin to Create Linear Stepped Gradients code  CodePen Grd: A (512 byte) CSS Grid Framework using Flexbox code  Shogo Sensui react-mt-svg-lines: Animate SVG Lines code  Peter Morawiec A Grid Solution for the Responsive Tables Problem code tutorial  Rachel Andrew quiet.js: Transmit Data at 44.1KHz using Web Audio code  Brian Armstrong 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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