Karen Menezes looks at CSS’ ‘clip-path’ property which lets you work with polygons (via CSS or SVG) for masking elements in various ways.
Smashing Magazine
Brian Rinaldi looks beyond the use of the Web Audio API for cute demos and tricks, and into actually using audio for practical purposes to improve UIs on the Web.
Brian Rinaldi
Response image support (with the ‘picture’ element and ‘img srcset’), WebSockets for Web Workers, BroadcastChannel support, and more. There are also notes for developers.
Mozilla Hacks
Frontend Masters
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The ‘img’ tag has been around since the early days of the Web but ‘figure’ is new in HTML5. What does it add and when should it be used instead?
Callie Kavourgias
‘With the Chromium 42 release, H.264 hardware video decoding support has been expanded to OS X. Now Chromium on Macs, Windows 7+ and essentially all Chromebooks support power efficient decoding of video by default.’
HTML5 Rocks
With Microsoft’s switch from Internet Explorer to ‘Edge’, IEBlog has been retired and an all new blog has been started to keep up to date with Microsoft’s browser developments.
Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
May Android WebView’s problems be gone. Crosswalk is a great choice for building hybrid mobile apps on Android that provides an alternate webview for HTML5-based Cordova apps.
Intel Corporation
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JavaScript Moves Forward in Microsoft Edge with ECMAScript 6 and Beyond news Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
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Learn to Create HTML Emails, a New Code School Course news Code School
What's New in Chrome 42: Push API, Install Banners and the Fetch API news video Pete LePage
Mozilla Launches A New Firefox Version Without DRM Support news
Firefox 38 supports the Encrypted Media Extensions API but there’s also an option for people against the idea.
TechCrunch
Mozilla Adds -webkit Prefix Emulation to Select Sites in Firefox news gHacks
Getting Started with HTML5 Video tutorial SitePoint
A Short Note On aria-labelledby and aria-describedby tutorial
“The ARIA attributes aria-labelledby and aria-describedby can be used to provide an accessible name or accessible description for a subset of HTML elements.”
Steve Faulkner
The At-Rules of CSS tutorial Geoff Graham
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Microsoft Edge: What Designers Need to Know opinion Webdesigner Depot
Flight Arcade: A WebGL-based Flight Simulator demo
It’s not quite Microsoft Flight Simulator, but is a reasonable way to waste a few minutes.
Microsoft
Escher and The Droste Effect - A WebGL Fragment Shader demo Bird Games
Bootstrap Tabs That Keep Track of History using the HTML5 History API code Jeff Green
Bone.io: A Realtime HTML5 Framework code
A lightweight framework for building high performance realtime single page HTML5 apps.
techpines
ReadRemaining.js: Tell Readers How Long Needed to Read Any Text code Aerolab
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