Frontend Focus
Issue 184 — April 15, 2015
“As the web platform grows, there needs to be a standard way for developers to check the status of a permission [..] The Permission API, available in Chrome version 43, is intended to be this [..]” Mozilla and Microsoft also seem keen.
HTML5Rocks

Today’s Chrome 42 release turns off NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”) support by default, meaning the start of the end for bulky plugins, as commonly used for things like Java and Silverlight.
Ars Technica

This is about as simple as you can boil down the process.
John Sonmez

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If you blow past the usual 5 megabyte limit, what happens? Turns out there are a few possibilities, depending on the browser.
Raymond Camden

At SFHTML5, the Web animation guru looked at the Web Animations API from the perspectives of UI designers, interaction developers, library authors, and the browser teams implementing it.
YouTube

PostCSS parses CSS into a tree of nodes that you can manipulate programatically.
SitePoint

SVG is an XML-based vector image format that’s becoming increasingly common on the Web due to responsive design and high resolution devices. Experts from the W3C, Mozilla, Canon, Adobe and elsewhere are busy working on version 2.
W3C

Specifiction launched a year ago as an independent venue for Web developers to openly discuss Web standards. Now it’s taking a new step forward.
Specifiction

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In Brief

Today's Chrome 42 Release Implements the Push API news
Provides servers with a mechanism to send messages to a webapp, regardless of whether the webapp is currently active on the user agent or not.
W3C

Signal: A New Conference To Unlock Communication Experiences news
Learn about the future of the web and real-time communications from developers such as Philipp Hancke from and Guillermo Rauch of Socket.io at Signal on May 19-20 in San Francisco.
Twilio  Sponsor

CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI) news
Describes UI-related selectors, properties and values that are proposed for CSS Level 3 to style HTML.
W3C

Gamepad: A New W3C Working Draft news
The Gamepad specification defines a low-level interface that represents gamepad devices.
W3C

Mobile Game Development with the Device Orientation and Vibration APIs tutorial
Mozilla Hacks

Drag Elements, Console History, and more in Firefox Developer Edition 39 
Some key improvements for the Firefox developer tools.
Mozilla Hacks

11 talks from Forward 2 that will change the way you write JS video
Kyle Simpson asks "JavaScript: WTF?" and Hunter Loftis tells us "What JavaScript Programmers Can Learn from Game Devs", and more.
Forward Web Technology Summit  Sponsor

7 Lessons from 3 Years of HTML5 Mobile Application Development  opinion
Josh Morony

O₂ Engine: An HTML5-based Visual Novel Engine tools

A 'Live CSS Editor' without using JS demo
Built around the idea that ‘style’ is just an HTML element like any other.
CodePen

Landscape Parallax using CSS (Only) demo code
Dave Chenell

Atom-Shell-App-Builder: A Builder to Package Atom Shell Applications Written in HTML/CSS/JS code tools
xavier geerinck

WebAudioExtension: Web Audio API Editor Extension for Google Chrome code tools
Jaume Sanchez

Render Markdown As Unrendered Markdown (using the CSS 'content' property) code
GitHub

layzr.js: Small, Fast, Dependency-free Library for Lazy Loading Images code
Michael Cavalea

Basscss: Fast, Modular CSS with No Side Effects code
A collection of base element styles, immutable utilities, layout modules, and color styles.
Jxnblk

3Dmol.js: WebGL JS Molecular Graphics Library code
David Koes