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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 184)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 184
published_at: "2015-04-15"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/184"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 184)
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Frontend FocusIssue 184 — April 15, 2015[A Standard Permissions API for Web Platform APIs](http://updates.html5rocks.com/2015/04/permissions-api-for-the-web?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) “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
[Chrome Disables Plugins; Starts Pushing Java Off the Web](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/04/chrome-starts-pushing-java-off-the-web-by-disabling-plugins/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[How to Create a Chrome Extension in 10 Minutes](http://www.sitepoint.com/create-chrome-extension-10-minutes-flat/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) This is about as simple as you can boil down the process. John Sonmez
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[Blowing Up localStorage (or What Happens When You Exceed Quota)](http://www.raymondcamden.com/2015/04/14/blowing-up-localstorage-or-what-happens-when-you-exceed-quota?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) If you blow past the usual 5 megabyte limit, what happens? Turns out there are a few possibilities, depending on the browser. Raymond Camden
[State of the Animation with Rachel Nabors [video\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxOq1bnlZXk) 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
[How to Build Your Own CSS Preprocessor With PostCSS](http://www.sitepoint.com/build-css-preprocessor-postcss/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) PostCSS parses CSS into a tree of nodes that you can manipulate programatically. SitePoint
[Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) 2: A W3C Working Draft](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-SVG2-20150409/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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 Forum to Become Part of WebPlatform.org](http://discourse.specifiction.org/t/upcoming-migration/805?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email)[Specifiction](http://specifiction.org/) [launched](http://specifiction.org/t/welcome-to-specifiction/6) 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](https://w3c.github.io/push-api/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://signal.twilio.com/?utm_source=html5weekly&utm_medium=email) 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.
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[CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI)](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-css3-ui-20150409/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-gamepad-20150414/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
The Gamepad specification defines a low-level interface that represents gamepad devices.
W3C
[Mobile Game Development with the Device Orientation and Vibration APIs](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/mobile-game-development-with-the-device-orientation-and-vibration-apis/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Mozilla Hacks
[Drag Elements, Console History, and more in Firefox Developer Edition 39](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/04/drag-elements-console-history-and-more-firefox-developer-edition-39/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email)
Some key improvements for the Firefox developer tools.
Mozilla Hacks
[11 talks from Forward 2 that will change the way you write JS](http://forwardjs.com/videos.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) video
[Kyle Simpson asks "JavaScript: WTF?"](http://www.pubnub.com/blog/kyle-simpson-asks-javascript-wtf/) and [Hunter Loftis tells us "What JavaScript Programmers Can Learn from Game Devs"](http://www.pubnub.com/blog/what-javascript-programmers-can-learn-from-game-devs/), and more.
Forward Web Technology SummitSponsor
[7 Lessons from 3 Years of HTML5 Mobile Application Development](http://www.joshmorony.com/7-lessons-from-3-years-of-html5-mobile-application-development/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Josh Morony
[O₂ Engine: An HTML5-based Visual Novel Engine](http://o2engine.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
[A 'Live CSS Editor' without using JS](http://codepen.io/jcalifa/full/QwepvY?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
Built around the idea that ‘style’ is just an HTML element like any other.
CodePen
[Landscape Parallax using CSS (Only)](http://thewaterbear.com/pure-css-landscape-parallax/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo code
Dave Chenell
[Atom-Shell-App-Builder: A Builder to Package Atom Shell Applications Written in HTML/CSS/JS](https://github.com/thebillkidy/Atom-Shell-App-Builder?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code tools
xavier geerinck
[WebAudioExtension: Web Audio API Editor Extension for Google Chrome](https://github.com/spite/WebAudioExtension?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code tools
Jaume Sanchez
[Render Markdown As Unrendered Markdown (using the CSS 'content' property)](https://gist.github.com/ImJasonH/c00cdd7aece6945fb8ea?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
GitHub
[layzr.js: Small, Fast, Dependency-free Library for Lazy Loading Images](https://github.com/callmecavs/layzr.js?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Michael Cavalea
[Basscss: Fast, Modular CSS with No Side Effects](http://www.basscss.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
A collection of base element styles, immutable utilities, layout modules, and color styles.
Jxnblk
[3Dmol.js: WebGL JS Molecular Graphics Library](https://github.com/dkoes/3Dmol.js?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
David Koes
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