This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 258)

Read this e-mail on the Web FrontEnd Focus formerly HTML5 Weekly Google's HTML and CSS Style Guide Google This isn’t new but a few recommendations in here surprised me (as well as people on Twitter) so you might find Google’s advice both useful and intriguing. Welcome to HTML 5.2: New Developments in the Specs Telerik Developer Network Annarita Tranfici discusses what has changed since HTML5 was originally released including new HTML elements and other features that are at risk as the spec evolves. 12 Handy Chrome DevTools Tips David Gilbertson These are mostly simple tips but may uncover a few features you hadn’t got around to trying yet. ($0 was a handy one I didn’t know about.) Learning Paths: From Beginner to Advanced Front-End Dev FRONTEND MASTERS  Sponsored Pick your skill level and get course suggestions ordered. Choose from four learning paths: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced & Designers Learning Code. Gmail to Support Media Queries and Head-Based CSS Google Google will be supporting modern CSS more thoroughly in Gmail by the end of the month. CSS Grid Meets The Real World: A Login Form Rachel Andrew A look at creating a login form that uses several alignment properties alongside CSS Grid Layout, enhancing a simpler version using feature queries. The Challenges of HTML5 Media Playback BBC Internet Blog The BBC’s Lloyd Wallis looks at the challenges the BBC has faced regarding HTML5 media playback as they move away from Flash. From WordPress to Apple News, Instant Articles, and AMP Chris Coyier Chris Coyier (of CSS Tricks) looks at ways to republish a WordPress blog to Apple News, Facebook’s Instant Articles and AMP. Jobs Front-End Developer at Modern Tribe (Remote, US time zones)   Get 5+ Engineering Job Offers in 1 WeekWith Hired, companies apply to hire you - get salary and equity offers before you interview from companies like Facebook, Postmates, & Square Hired.com In brief Safari 10 Available for MacOS 10.12 and 10.11 news CSS support for object-position, picture-in-picture video playback, and full ES6 and Apple Pay support.  Apple Firefox 49 Fixes Sites Designed with WebKit in Mind news The recently released Firefox 49 now includes support for various -webkit- prefixes.  Mozilla Hacks What’s New in Opera 40 (based on Chromium 53) news Shadow DOM v1, new MediaStreamTrack API methods, unprefixed CSS filter changes & more.  Opera W3C on Bringing Virtual Reality to the Web Platform news  Dominique Hazaël-Massieux Discover the world’s most trusted SQL Server comparison tool  Enjoy a free trial of SQL Compare, the industry standard for comparing and deploying SQL Server schemas.  Red Gate SPONSOR WebGL2 Fundamentals: Learn WebGL2 from the Ground Up tutorial  Greggman CSS Floats Explained By Riding An Escalator tutorial “If you have ever jumped on an escalator, then you can quickly understand floats.”  Kevin Kononenko Hiding DOM Elements, and the Implications of Doing So tutorial  Rodney Rehm Common CSS Mistakes (And How To Fix Them) tutorial  Mariano Miguel Autoprefixing with CSS Variables tutorial An interesting use for CSS variables I hadn’t considered before.  Lea Verou Why We Use Progressive Enhancement to Build GOV.UK story Does progressive enhancement have a perception problem? Here, Robin Whittleton explains why the UK government use progressive enhancement for GOV.UK.  Government Digital Service (UK) Rise of the Web Workers slidedeck Slides on how mainstream libraries like React or Angular use Web Workers to improve performance.  Parashuram N Confident Frontend with Elm video Elm is a compile-to-JavaScript language that brings some interesting ideas to frontend development.  Jack Franklin Beyond The Tab: Executing JavaScript Across Browser Contexts video  Andrew Dunkman 6 Web Layout Myths Busted opinion Challenge your assumptions, break out of old habits and discover what’s newly possible with layout on the web.  Jen Simmons Browser Bug Searcher: Search for Bugs Across All Major Browsers tools  Onsen UI 2 Released: A Hybrid Mobile App Framework and Toolset tools  Onsen UI regl: A New Declarative and Stateless Abstraction for WebGL tools Check out the examples.  Eric Arnebäck Performance monitoring for JS developers tools Instantly pinpoint performance issues and build faster JS apps  Opbeat SPONSOR gulp-css-tailor: Automatically Generate CSS From HTML Classes code I’m not entirely sure this is a great idea, but..  Kamran Ahmed Reframe.js: Make Unresponsive Elements Responsive code Removes an element’s height and width attributes and wraps it in a responsive DIV.  Dollar Shave Club wysiwyg.css: Style TinyMCE or Markdown Generated Content with a Single CSS Class code  Jeremy Thomas 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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