This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 232)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 232 — March 23, 2016 Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners Of Front-End Vitaly Friedman A superb slidedeck from a workshop given by Smashing Magazine’s proprietor. You should learn a few things from this. How You Can Use Responsive Web Components Today David Berner How do Web Components fit into the current state of the Web, work cross browser, and adapt to the space they’re allocated? David Berner shows us how. Chrome DevTools Gets a New Mobile-First Device Mode Paul Bakaus Mobile is becoming the starting point in Chrome’s DevTools. Ready for Better Test Coverage? corgibytes  Sponsored Building out test suites is our specialty. We refactor. You build new features. Referrer and Cache Control APIs for fetch() Ehsan Akhgari The WHATWG Fetch API provides a modern way to fetch network resources and gives you fine grained control over the details of the request and response. Microsoft Edge Extensions Now Available to Preview Microsoft Edge Dev Blog MS is participating in the W3C Browser Extension Community Group’s efforts to define standardized extension APIs. How to Meet WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0 W3C Covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Information on Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) W3C Defines the W3C’s activities around DRM and corrects misconceptions about “EME putting DRM in HTML”. Accessibility Requirements for People with Low Vision W3C W3C First Public Working Draft describing what people with low vision require for electronic content, tools, and technologies to be accessible. Jobs UI Developer, React + D3 (Boston)We're looking for a savvy UI Developer to help us build applications for the next generation of wearable devices. Join our engineering team and get your hands dirty with React, D3 and other best-of-breed web technologies. MC10 UX Developer (SF Bay Area)Join an awesome web/mobile/DB consultancy that emphasizes teamwork and learning and puts employees first in everything we do. Beezwax Stop Applying to Jobs - Let Companies Apply to YouOn Hired, sign up in 10 minutes and get offers from top companies like Facebook, Uber, & Stripe. Engineers get an average of 5 offers on the platform in 1 week. Try it today. Hired.com In brief Safari 9.1: Updates to WebKit in iOS/OS X news New WebKit features include CSS variables support, Fast Tap (bye 350ms delay), and improved HTML5 Canvas image smoothing.   Apple Firefox Dev Edition 47 Updates: User Agent Emulation and Popup Debugging news  Mozilla Hacks Canvas toBlob() Support Added in Chrome 50 news “Instead of manipulating a base64 encoded string that you get from toDataURL(), you can now you work with the encoded binary data directly.”   Paul Lewis Previewing WebAssembly Experiments in Microsoft Edge news  Microsoft Edge Dev Blog Google's Mobilegeddon Aftermath: Eight Months Into A Better Mobile Web news  Smashing Magazine A Practical Introduction to Material Design Lite by Google tutorial  SitePoint How to Create an Interactive Animated SVG Drum Kit tutorial  Codrops Canvas Vs. SVG: Choosing The Right Tool for The Job tutorial  Maria Antonietta Perna Content and Display Patterns with Expressive CSS tutorial  John Polacek Interview with Google Software Engineer Alex Russell video  O'Reilly 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 PostCSS Mythbusting: 4 PostCSS Myths Busted opinion  SitePoint PX, EM or REM Media Queries? opinion Ever wondered if you should use px, em or rem units for your media queries?   Zell Liew Web Typography Is Broken. Here’s How We Can Fix It opinion  Tom Bredin-Grey CSS Flexbox Is Entirely Logical (Almost) opinion  Paul Robert Lloyd Grunt Unused: Check for Unused Files in A Project tools A Grunt task to check for unused files in a project and output them to the console.   Ryan Burgess The Visual Component Library: A Modular CSS for Web Components code A modular, extensible approach to CSS for the era of component-based Web application development.   Thomas Hoppe RenderJS: A Serverless WebRTC Database using Chrome HTTP WebSocket Server code  Nexedi Force.js: To Animate Elements and Move Around Your Page code Multiple easing functions and uses CSS transforms by default.   René Tanczos Get paid to share your developer knowledge with a global audience  Create and publish video training courses as a freelance Author. Flexible schedule, work from home. Apply today.  Pluralsight SPONSOR Procedurally Generated Infinite WebGL City demo  My Little Rapture 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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