A Guide to Web Font Loading Strategies, A CSS Selector Game, HTML5test Updated

Plus a 30 minute guide to building instant-loading offline-first webapps... Read this e-mail on the Web FrontEnd Focus formerly HTML5 Weekly How to Build Instant-Loading Offline-First Progressive Webapps YouTube In just 30 minutes, Jake Archibald presents a practical guide to the technologies behind taking an online-only site and turning it into a fully network-resilient offline-first progressive webapp. A Comprehensive Guide to Font Loading Strategies Zach Leatherman An objective set of pros, cons and helpful tips spanning the various ways of loading Web fonts on your site. ChromeLens: Chrome Extension to Develop for the Visually Impaired Eugene Chiong A Chrome DevTools extension that lets you simulate interactions with a site as a completely, partially or color-blind person, as well as run an accessibility audit. More insights here. ForwardJS July 25-Aug 1 in San Francisco: More JavaScript Than You Require ForwardJS  Sponsored Eight days of sessions and workshops on React, D3, Angular 2, Accessibility, Progressive Web Apps and Functional JS. SVG Accessibility on the Web: A How To Heather Migliorisi A code and example-dense look at how the rising popularity of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) could impact users of assistive technology, and what can be done to ensure a great experience. CSS Diner: A Fun CSS Selector Game / Tutorial Luke Pacholski A quick online game/tutorial to help you learn CSS selectors (or at least refresh your knowledge). How I Ended Up With Element Queries, And How You Can Use Them Today Tommy Hodgins A discussion of the history and uses of element queries and how this led to the creation of EQCSS, a plugin that supports element queries, Scoped CSS, and more. Front-End Development in an IoT World Patrick Catanzariti Patrick Catanzariti looks at how the Internet of Things may affect front-end web development in the future. Updated CSS Grid Layout Module Draft W3C The level one draft for the CSS Grid Layout spec has been updated, outlining the differences between Flexbox and Grid: “Unlike Flexible Box Layout, which is single-axis–oriented, Grid Layout is optimized for 2-dimensional layouts” Jobs Hired is the best place to find engineering jobs.Bored at work? Want to try a new stack? Find 3500+ great tech companies on Hired who will compete to hire you. Try it today. Hired.com In brief New Good Parts of JavaScript and the Web Course news Douglas Crockford greatly expands JavaScript the Good Parts with more programming challenges, ES6, async, how web browsers work, web security and more.  Frontend Masters SPONSOR HTML5test Updated; Now Supports Many New Web Specs news  A Start on a Human-Readable Prose-Led WebAssembly Spec news Still very much a work in progress, like WebAssembly itself.  WebAssembly Project The W3C and MIT Media Lab Host First ‘Blockchain and the Web’ Workshop news Blockchain and Web standards experts discussed what needs to happen to integrate blockchains into the Web.  Giulio Prisco Using Zopfli to Optimize PNG Images tutorial A way to reduce the size of your PNGs (often significantly) in a lossless fashion.  Ariya Hidayat Accessibility Options for Unlabelled HTML 'input' Search Fields tutorial  Jeremy Keith How To Build A Cross-Platform WebGL Game with Babylon.js tutorial  David Rousset How to Scale SVGs Without Scaling Their Strokes tutorial Useful when scaling icons, for example.  Nick Salloum How to Set Up Automated, Cross-Browser JavaScript Unit Testing tutorial  Philip Walton 6-Step Responsive Design Guide: Grids, Progressive Disclosure, & Layouts tutorial Learn how to truly design mobile-first and the 3 vital questions to ask before you start any web development project.  Designlab SPONSOR How The Guardian is Experimenting with Interactive Web Notifications story  Madeline Welsh How Will Web Components Change CSS Architecture? opinion  Jonathan Snook We Built Our Website Without CSS: The Highs and The Lows opinion “If I started a personal project today, I would do my styling in JavaScript.”  David Gilbertson Practical Use Cases for the 'picture' Element opinion  Corey Bruyere The Hottest Trend in Web Design Is Making Intentionally Ugly, Difficult Sites opinion  Washington Post Reflecting on the W3C Web Payments WG opinion The Payment App API was adopted as an editor’s draft this week.  Adrian Hope-Bailie The Moment CSS Started Making 'Sense' opinion Geoff Graham, Robin Rendle and Sarah Drasner share what it took for them to ‘get’ CSS.  Geoffrey Graham A Look at WebP Support in Browsers opinion WebP offers some advantages over JPEGs and PNGs but how broad is support for the format? More common than you’d think..  KeyCDN aXe 2.0: An Open Source Accessibility Testing Engine tools Automated testing of HTML-based UIs for accessibility defects.  Marcy Sutton VidzPlayer: A React-Based HTML5 Video Player code A simple video player built in React, leveraging vidz for the player creation.  Plant The Idea ZingTouch: A JavaScript Mobile Gesture Detection Library code Provides six standard gestures that are completely customizable (Try it on a touch-enabled device).  ZingChart Recreating The Sounds of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop demo The BBC has reproduced an early electronic instrument using the Web Audio API. You can play with it here and also see how it was built. Several other examples can also be found in the footer.  BBC Research and Development Curated by Peter Cooper and published by Cooper Press. Unsubscribe : Change email address : Read this issue on the Web Published by Cooper Press Ltd. Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK

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