This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 245)

Read this e-mail on the Web HTML Weekly Issue 245 — June 22, 2016 Being Productive With Task Runners Adam Simpson A look at ‘how to harness the machines’ to help you with your front-end dev work using Grunt, Gulp, Webpack and npm scripts, along with examples of how and why each is used. Enabling Upcoming CSS Features with PostCSS Pavels Jelisejevs How to use new properties and values from upcoming CSS specifications today using the PostCSS tool. AngularJS Tutorial: Build a Feature Loaded Chat App Pubnub  Sponsored Learn to build your own AngularJS chat app with realtime messages and more in no time. View Tutorial. The Art of Layout Testing with the Galen Framework Ivan Shubin How do we make sure a site’s layout stays responsive and displays correctly on all kinds of devices with various resolutions? Here’s one solution. Goodbye Short Sessions? A Proposal for Improving Cookie Management Google A practical proof of concept design / proposal to persist sessions using Service Workers. Intent to Implement: Web Share API Matt Giuca A proposed API for sharing data (text, URLs, images) from the web to an app of the user’s choosing. Jobs Job Offers. No resume necessary.Create your Hired profile to get top companies to start applying to hire you. Get offers from $75,000 - $250,000 on the platform in 1 week. Hired.com In brief Flexbox Gets New Behavior for Absolute Positioned Children news In Chrome 52+, Edge, and Opera 39+.  Joseph Medley CSS Containment in Chrome 52 news The new CSS Containment property lets developers limit the scope of the browser’s styles, layout and paint work.  Paul Lewis The Shortened HTML5 Doctype Was Proposed 11 Years Ago news  W3C Add a 'playsinline' Attribute to the 'video' Element news Gives a standardized pragma for opting into inline behavior in iOS Safari.  WHATWG Lightning fast SSD hosts for your HTML5 project  Host your HTML5 site on Linode servers - the fastest VPS hosts available. Use promo code HTML520 for $20 credit.  Linode SPONSOR Using A Gamepad for HTML5 Projects tutorial  Dave Voyles Accessing the User's Camera with JpegCamera and Canvas tutorial JpegCamera falls back to Flash if the browser doesn’t support getUserMedia.  Martín Martínez How to Use Chrome Developer Tools to Test Layouts tutorial  Creative Bloq The Essential Meta Tags for Social Media tutorial A run down of the necessary meta tags for social media to display rich previews.  Adam Coti Leveling Up in CSS tutorial Four pieces of advice to help you work with CSS at scale.  Jonathan Z. White CSS Snap Point Design Guidelines opinion  Zach Saucier Save Scoped CSS opinion The W3C recently updated the draft specification for CSS scoping, using the @scope syntax. However, vendor support seems minimal.  Keith J Grant The Sad State of Printing on the Web opinion  Kyle Kemp Fawkss: A CSS Preprocessor in an AWK Script tools Bills itself as a “CSS preprocessor for people who dislike CSS preprocessors.”  Alex Palaistras Blisk: Your Next Web Development Browser? tools Blisk is a new developer-only browser that uses the Blink rendering engine.  Craig Buckler speedline: Calculate Speed Index & Visual Perf Metrics from DevTools Timeline tools  Pierre-Marie Dartus See what your users see. tools Meet FullStory, the pixel-perfect session playback tool that makes it easy to answer any question about your customers online experience. Try it free for 2 weeks.  Periscope Data SPONSOR React CSS Components: Define React Presentational Components with CSS code  Andrey Popp Snapper: A CSS Snap Points Carousel code  Scott Jehl Decorative Text Underlines with box-shadow and text-shadow demo code  Jonathan Neal Coloring Emoji using CSS demo code Beware: the poop emoji appears in many colors.  Roman Komarov 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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