Frontend Focus
Issue 175 — February 11, 2015
The Web Real-Time Communications Working Group has published a Working Draft of WebRTC 1.0. WebRTC defines a set of ECMAScript APIs to allow data to be sent to and received from another client implementing the right real-time protocols.
W3C

Check out our new ‘webops’ newsletter, covering HTTP, Web performance, infrastructure, deployment, tooling, etc. Most of the performance oriented stuff we sometimes run in HTML5 Weekly will go there instead in future.
Cooper Press

Accessibility isn’t all about ‘people with disabilities’ but about people overall being able to use the Web properly. Anne Gibson challenges some assumptions about what accessibility means.
A List Apart

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Did you know the Canvas has a navigable sub DOM that you can use to make your canvases more accessible? Here’s a look at how it works.
Steve Faulkner

The CSS Image Values and Replaced Content module provides an ‘object-fit’ property which helps control how aspect ratios are managed on images and videos with specific widths and heights.
Mozilla Hacks

Microsoft and the W3C have been working on a spec to make working with user ‘selections’ easier. The latest preview builds of IE have some initial support.
IEBlog

Adds the ability for React components to render to an HTML5 Canvas rather than the DOM.
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In Brief

No Starch Press Publishes 'Build an HTML5 Game' Book news
The final print version is due in March but there’s an early access e-book already.
No Starch Press

First Public Working Draft of Screen Capture news
Defines how a user’s display (or parts thereof) can be used as the source of a media stream with getOutputMedia
W3C

Firefox to Require Add-ons to Be Signed in the Future news
gHacks Tech News

First Public Working Draft of the Audio Output Devices API news
JavaScript APIs that let a Web application manage how audio is rendered.
W3C

Vibration API Becomes a W3C Recommendation news
An API that provides access to the vibration mechanism of the hosting device.
W3C

W3C and Automotive Industry Start New Web Standards Work for Connected Cars news
W3C

Poll Results: The Most Popular 'input' Types news
Other than ‘text’, of course.
Peter-Paul Koch

Animating Pseudo-Elements tutorial
CSS Animation Rocks

Easy Textures with CSS Masks tutorial
Jeremy Frank

Recreating the Google Images Search Layout with CSS tutorial
SitePoint

Strategies for Keeping CSS Specificity Low tutorial
Chris Coyier

Video Tutorial: Intro to the Ionic Framework video
Learn how to create hybrid mobile applications with Ionic using AngularJS and the JavaScript controls in Wijmo 5. Watch now.
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Windows Substitutes Helvetica for Arial 
Jonathan Snook

Why I Don't Use Compass Anymore opinion
SitePoint

AudioCrawl: Showcasing The Best in Web Audio demo
AudioCrawl

Things That Can Be Achieved With a Single input type='range' Element code demo
Ana Tudor

iframe-resizer: Automatic Resizing of IFrames to Their Content code
Supports both same and cross-domain IFrames. Dependency free and supports IE8 and above too.
David J. Bradshaw

Konva.js: A 2D HTML5 Canvas Framework code
KonvaJS

A NodeJS Recipe for Automating JavaScript Profiling in Chrome code
Paul Irish

WebOps Weekly: Our Newest Weekly for Web Engineers 
Cooper Press