This Week's HTML5, CSS and Browser Tech News #263

Read this e-mail on the Web FrontEnd Focus formerly HTML5 Weekly It’s Game Time for the Web Dion Almaer Powerful opinions on the importance of elegantly dealing with mobile web constraints, whether through aggressive build solutions, client-side technology or ‘tricks and illusions.’ TestCafé: Automated Cross Browser Testing for The Modern Web Stack Developer Express Inc. A pure Node solution for testing webapps that handles browsers, running tests, and generating report. There’s great documentation too. CSS Flexbox Explained by Road Tripping Across the Country Kevin Kononenko “If you have ever been on a long roadtrip, then you can understand CSS Flexbox.” This is a very interesting way to explain things. Discover How to Write Apps in Angular 2 with Rangle’s Online Sessions Rangle.io  Sponsored Now’s the time to get up to speed with Angular 2. Rangle offers a FREE Angular 2 online training course for JavaScript developers. Register now to join the session on November 22-23. What's The Difference Between CSS and Preprocessor Variables? Chris Coyier Variables are one of the major reasons CSS preprocessors exist at all, but now ‘CSS variables’ are supported by most major browsers. Font Awesome 5: A Kickstarter for an Update to Font Awesome Dave Gandy Every icon is getting remade from scratch, and with 36 days left to go, the campaign is far beyond its original goal. Improving Perceived Performance with Multiple Background Images Harry Roberts How using multiple backgrounds via CSS can be a useful technique to improve perceived load time when large masthead images are involved. Why Do Sites Publish AMP Pages? John Gruber John Gruber worries that using AMP traps users by not easily offering them an obvious way to get back to the canonical version of the article. Chris Coyier follows up. Jobs Senior Web Developer (Minnesota, USA)We're seeking a dev who loves creating polished web experiences. The right candidate needs the skills to create smooth animations, and an ability to make artistic decisions, turning static designs into interactive interfaces. Plaudit One Application, 4,000+ Opportunities - Try HiredOn Hired companies apply to interview you. Get 1:1 support for your job search plus upfront compensation details. Hired In brief CSS Table Module Level 3: W3C First Public Working Draft news  W3C Introducing the Web Share API: Native Sharing from the Web news Chrome is running an Origin Trial on a simple API called Web Share that allows sites to invoke the native sharing capabilities of the host platform.  Google Developers PubSubHubbub Now Known as PubSub, Adopted by W3C news  W3C Gaining Understanding of The Browsers People Use news During September 2016 only 2% of visitors to the UK government website used IE 7, 8 or 9. That’s 1.8 million people.  UK Government Digital Service YouTube Is Being Rebuilt with Web Components and Polymer news  Jorge Arévalo What's New in IndexedDB 2.0? news  Mozilla Hacks Error Monitoring and Crash Reporting Now Available for React Native  Use Bugsnag to automatically capture and report JavaScript and native OS crashes in your React Native apps.  Bugsnag SPONSOR Recreating The Periodic Table with Grid CSS tutorial A practical look at the flexibility afforded by using Grid CSS.  Justin Avery JavaScript for Web Designers: DOM Scripting tutorial  Mat Marquis The Sad State of HTML Email Input Fields and IDNs tutorial  Mike Cardwell Using CSS Mod(ulo) Queries with Range Selectors tutorial A creative use for queries that select patterns of items and range selectors to change the layout of elements in lists.  Patrick Clancey Responsive Images in CSS tutorial A look at the available options for supporting responsive images, how they work and where they are supported.  Chris Coyier How to Manage Hyphens with CSS tutorial Using the hyphens and -webkit-hyphens properties.  Joseph Medley aria-selected: When (Not) to Use It tutorial Using ARIA attributes can be more nuanced and tricker than you’d think.  Stefan Judis You Can’t Get Comfortable in Web Development opinion Rey argues that developers are panicking because they’re “looking at what they need to do to stay relevant and it’s hard to pick a route”.  Rey Bango Is MVC Dead for The Frontend? opinion  Alex Moldovan Komodo IDE: The Best IDE for Web and Mobile Developers tools Web & mobile devs get all their favorite frameworks, languages, and tools in one cross-platform, polyglot IDE.  ActiveState SPONSOR Web Bloat Score Calculator tools A tool with an interesting approach of measuring a page’s weight vs. the size of a screenshot of the same page.  TestDome CSS Icons: Icons You Can Use Built Entirely in CSS tools  Wenting Zhang useful.ly: A CSS Flexbox Framework tools  CSS Character Units: CSS Getting 'ch' Character Width Units demo  Wes Bos 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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