It's oh so quiet: Firefox 66 can block autoplaying sound

#383 — March 20, 2019 Read on the Web Frontend Focus (It's Bjork. And it's oh so quiet..) Firefox 66: The Sound of Silence — Users can now determine whether a site can autoplay sound or not, improvements have been made to scrolling, Touch Bar support has been added for macOS, and various security issues have also been resolved. Here’s the full release notes. Mozilla KV Storage, the Web's First 'Built-in' Module? — Chrome is experimenting with a concept called built-in modules, essentially a sort of standard library for JavaScript that requires no extra downloads in clients such as browsers. Exciting, but controversial. Google Developers Build & Deploy Serverless Apps on a Global Cloud Network — Learn how to start writing serverless APIs in JavaScript, and reserve a custom subdomain for your next project. Cloudflare Workers sponsor An Introduction to Web Components — The first in a series on Web Components. 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Google Chrome Developers Planning for Responsive Images — “Adjusting the width simply doesn’t cut it when it comes to handling responsive images.” Chris Nwamba IMAGECON: The Ultimate Event For Devs on Rich Media. Learn More Cloudinary sponsor Hacking Custom Checkboxes & Radios with CSS — Improving the look of native radio buttons/checkboxes while still preserving accessibility. Glad Chinda How to Build a Member App using Facial Recognition and the Serverless Framework — Using AWS Rekognition and AWS Lambda via the Serverless Framework to build a scalable member management system to replace membership cards. James Beswick You Probably Don't Need Input type="number" — A cautionary tale, as Brad quickly makes the case against always using type="number". Brad Frost My CSS Reset — Designer and developer Zell Liew shares his personal preference for a CSS reset. Zell Liew 🔧 Code and Tools Pseudo 3D Text Effect — A well-realised pseudo 3D technique here, with the text formed from particles. 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