Apologies for the delayed issue this week, I've been busy chairing the O'Reilly Fluent conference. Hopefully we'll be rewarded by many great videos soon, however.
As great as HTML5 Canvas is, its inherently visual nature provokes accessibility concerns. There are, however, two features that can improve matters slightly.
Mark Sadecki
Slides (that mostly work alone) for a great talk given at O’Reilly Fluent this week.
Sanders Kleinfeld
Chrome adds push notifications support, providing a more app-like experience for your favorite websites.
The Verge
Transactional HTML emails often get neglected but they're important for growing and maintaining a healthy user base. To help you, we have open-sourced a collection of common templates for transactional email to download for free. Tables, inline CSS, unsupported CSS, desktop clients, web clients, mobile clients, various devices, various providers - all thought about and tested. Download now.
Mailgun
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A W3C Working Draft that describes the best practices for identifying or selecting the language of content as well as locale preferences used to display data values and other information on the Web.
W3C
Provides an API for representing file objects in web applications, as well as programmatically selecting them and accessing their data.
W3C
As of this week, Google’s search algorithm is prioritizing ‘mobile friendly’ sites. Annie has some tips for keeping Google happy.
Annie Sexton
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In Brief
W3C Working Draft: CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 4 news
This CSS module describes how to collate style rules and assign values to all properties on all elements.
W3C
Signal: A New Conference To Unlock Communication Experiences rawurl 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
DevTools Timeline: Now Providing the Full Story news HTML5 Rocks
W3C Proposed Group: Wearable Web Community Group news W3C
So Coded 2015: An Event for 'Web Wizards' in Hamburg, Germany news
Takes place in July. Douglas Crockford and Rachel Myers are down to talk, amongst others.
So Coded
test.webrtc.org: WebRTC Troubleshooter Tool tools WebRTC.org
How to find and fix the slowest code in your .NET application Find bottlenecks in your code or database boost performance with new ANTS Performance Profiler 9. Try free. Red Gate Software Sponsor
org-ioslide: Export Emacs' org-mode Documents to Google I/O HTML5 Slides tools Lee Yen-Chin
An IxD (Interaction Design) Checklist tools IXD Checklist
Double-Clicking On The Web: We Should Disable It opinion Mattias Geniar
Stet.io: An HTML5-based Online Image Editor demo P G Jones
Websynths: Browser-Based Microtonal Instrument demo
An Interactive Drag and Drop Web Coloring Concept demo
There’s an article about it too.
Tympanus
MathBox: Presentation-Quality Math Diagrams in WebGL code unconed
Strand: A UI Web Components Library on top of Polymer code
Strand components are cohesive in look and feel and designed to be interoperable.
MediaMath
WorkerExchange: A Wrapper for WebWorker and SharedWorker code Steel Brain
wm-html-include.js: Include External HTML Pages without HTML Imports code Alexander
CompareTo: A Custom HTML5 Attribute That Compares Two Passwords code Alex Booker
Materialize: Responsive Front-end Framework based on Material Design code Materialize
elevator.js: A 'Back to Top' Button That Acts Like a Real Elevator code
Sure it’s silly but enjoy the demo anyway.
Tim Holman
egg.js: A Simple Way to Add 'Easter Eggs' to Web Pages code
Watches for certain keystroke sequences.
Mike Flynn
Pointer: Provides W3C Pointer Events for Handling User Input code RAD.JS
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