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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 179)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 179
published_at: "2015-03-11"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/179"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 179)
Motion sensing, Tim Berners-Lee AMA, ARIA in HTML5, using audio in UIs, and more. — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://frontendfoc.us/issues/179)
Frontend FocusIssue 179 — March 11, 2015[Motion Sensing using the Web Audio API](http://danielrapp.github.io/doppler/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) This is neat! A 20KHz tone is generated and then detected by the Web Audio API which lets you do some ‘proximity’ related tricks using a doppler effect. Daniel Rapp
[I Am Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of The Web. Ask Me Anything.](http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2ykyht/i_am_sir_tim_bernerslee_inventor_of_the_web_join?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) session with Tim Berners-Lee. It’s now finished so you get to enjoy all of his answers. Reddit
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Join Yelp's Front-end team and help build a modern, styleguide-driven UX for our 138 million users! We’re looking for people who love good code and working closely with design, product, and other engineers to make great features.In 1 week you'll get 5+ offers from top tech companies around the US and UK. Want to learn more? Check out Hired today! Based on Chromium 41. Describes user interface related selectors, properties and values that are proposed for CSS level 3 to style HTML. Unfortunately so far its spits are as weak as mom’s spaghetti. Frontend MastersSponsor
[ARIA in HTML: An Early Draft](http://rawgit.com/webspecs/html-aria/master/index.src.html?specStatus=FPWD;publishDate=2015-03-11;wg=HTML%20Working%20Group;wgURI=http://www.w3.org/html/wg/;wgPublicList=public-html) An in-progress spec that defines the author conformance requirements for the use of WAI-ARIA (accessibility) attributes on HTML 5.1 elements. W3C
[Adding Audio to Web Apps](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/adding-audio-to-web-apps/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A look at some ideas for incorporating simple audio-enhanced UI interactions to a Web application. Brian Rinaldi
[Building the Earth with WebGL and JavaScript](http://www.sitepoint.com/building-earth-with-webgl-javascript/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A tutorial that looks at using three.js to build a model of Earth that you can rotate. SitePoint
[Using the HTML5 History API](https://css-tricks.com/using-the-html5-history-api/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) The HTML5 History API gives developers the ability to modify a website’s URL without any full page refreshes required (so it’s commonly used in single page JavaScript apps, for example). Robin Rendle
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[An Early Look at WebGL 2](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/03/03/an-early-look-at-webgl-2/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Mozilla
[Opera 28 Released](https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-28/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Based on Chromium 41. Dev.Opera
[CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI)](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-css3-ui-20150310/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Describes user interface related selectors, properties and values that are proposed for CSS level 3 to style HTML. W3C
[No Starch Press Publishes 'Build an HTML5 Game' Book](http://www.nostarch.com/html5game?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) No Starch Press
[HTML5 Geolocation Example: Building a Weather Widget](http://www.webcodegeeks.com/html5/html5-geolocation-example-weather-widget-demo/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Arindam Chattopadhya
[Automating Style Guide-Driven Development](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/05/automating-style-guide-driven-development/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Smashing Magazine
[Recording Audio and Video with HTML5 (and Meteor)](http://www.artandlogic.com/blog/2014/03/recording-audio-video-with-html5-co-starring-meteor/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Brian Poteat
[The State of Web Type](https://dev.opera.com/articles/state-of-web-type/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Dev.Opera
[All About the HTML BroadcastChannel API](http://ilikekillnerds.com/2015/03/all-about-the-html-broadcastchannel-api/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Dwayne Charrington
[Can CSS Be Too Modular?](http://csswizardry.com/2015/03/can-css-be-too-modular/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Harry Roberts
[ai2html: Converts Adobe Illustrator Documents into HTML and CSS](http://ai2html.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Archie Tse
[HTML5 Rap Synthesis](http://davidchang.github.io/html5-rap-synthesis/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Unfortunately so far its spits are as weak as mom’s spaghetti. David Chang
[Two Player VR Chess using WebGL through SceneVR](http://client.scenevr.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Ben Nolan
[Select3 v1.0 Released: A Rich 'select' Form Input Control](http://www.arendjr.nl/2015/03/select3-v10-released.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Arend van Beelen jr.
[WAAClock: An Event Scheduling Tool for the Web Audio API](https://github.com/sebpiq/WAAClock?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Sebastien Piquemal
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In Brief
[An Early Look at WebGL 2](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/03/03/an-early-look-at-webgl-2/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Mozilla
[Opera 28 Released](https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-28/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Based on Chromium 41.
Dev.Opera
[CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI)](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-css3-ui-20150310/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Describes user interface related selectors, properties and values that are proposed for CSS level 3 to style HTML.
W3C
[No Starch Press Publishes 'Build an HTML5 Game' Book](http://www.nostarch.com/html5game?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
No Starch Press
[HTML5 Geolocation Example: Building a Weather Widget](http://www.webcodegeeks.com/html5/html5-geolocation-example-weather-widget-demo/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Arindam Chattopadhya
[Automating Style Guide-Driven Development](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/05/automating-style-guide-driven-development/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Smashing Magazine
[Recording Audio and Video with HTML5 (and Meteor)](http://www.artandlogic.com/blog/2014/03/recording-audio-video-with-html5-co-starring-meteor/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Brian Poteat
[The State of Web Type](https://dev.opera.com/articles/state-of-web-type/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Dev.Opera
[All About the HTML BroadcastChannel API](http://ilikekillnerds.com/2015/03/all-about-the-html-broadcastchannel-api/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Dwayne Charrington
[Can CSS Be Too Modular?](http://csswizardry.com/2015/03/can-css-be-too-modular/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Harry Roberts
[ai2html: Converts Adobe Illustrator Documents into HTML and CSS](http://ai2html.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Archie Tse
[HTML5 Rap Synthesis](http://davidchang.github.io/html5-rap-synthesis/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
Unfortunately so far its spits are as weak as mom’s spaghetti.
David Chang
[Two Player VR Chess using WebGL through SceneVR](http://client.scenevr.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
Ben Nolan
[Select3 v1.0 Released: A Rich 'select' Form Input Control](http://www.arendjr.nl/2015/03/select3-v10-released.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Arend van Beelen jr.
[WAAClock: An Event Scheduling Tool for the Web Audio API](https://github.com/sebpiq/WAAClock?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Sebastien Piquemal
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