Web Components were first introduced to the world at Google IO 2012 but are still considered on the cutting edge. Wilson Page of Mozilla looks at what Web Components are, why they’re useful, and why they’re still not everywhere.
Mozilla Hacks
“The W3C HTML Working Group charter is expiring; discussion on what to do is inconclusive; things are pretty quiet in the WhatWG. Conclusion: The best thing to do about HTML is nothing.”
Tim Bray
A now complete four part series digging deep into creating a Media Source Extensions-based player which can buffer video and also switch between different renditions on demand.
Wirewax
Build a clean, well-structured web app from scratch by combining best-of breed approaches and a carefully curated set of tools including: Ampersand, React, WebPack, ES6 and Node.js.
Frontend Masters
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Why did Microsoft choose the name Edge over Spartan for its new browser? Burke Holland explains that it's all about the blue E.
Telerik Developer Network
Enabled in the latest Chrome, the Web MIDI API is here to play with. Here’s a quick look at how to do that from JavaScript.
Keith McMillen Instruments
Links to all of 120 APIs and specs under development as part of the ‘HTML5’ moniker.
Erik Wilde
Two members of Mozilla’s MozVR research team look at how VR can become ‘native’ on the Web.
Road to VR
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Mozilla's CTO, Andreas Gal, is Leaving news Andreas Gal
Opera 30 Released news Opera
HTML5's 'details' Element tutorial
Anything in ‘details’ is rendered behind a drop-down toggle with text supplied by an optional ‘summary’ element.
Max Stoiber
Importing CSS Breakpoints Into JavaScript tutorial Lullabot
Things I've Learned About Building and Coding HTML Email Templates tutorial
A lot of useful tips, tricks, and workarounds.
Lee Munroe
Review of Current HTML5 Bugs as of June 2015
A rough review from one engineer on the Microsoft Edge team.
Adrian Bateman
Ask HN: What Tools Do You Use to Build HTML Emails? opinion Hacker News
BackstopJS: Catch CSS Curve Balls tools
BackstopJS is a config-driven automated screenshot test component.
Art.com Labs
12 Tools for Creating Animations with HTML5 tools CodeCondo
How to find and fix the slowest code in your .NET application tools Find bottlenecks in your code or database boost performance with new ANTS Performance Profiler 9. Try free. Red Gate Software Sponsor
Flash2Svg v3.13: An Animated SVG Exporter for Flash Pro tools Warning: autoplays an example animation with sound. Thomas Byrne
J2C: JavaScript to CSS Compiler tools code
A CSS preprocessor based around JavaScript objects; provides a subset of Sass.
Pierre-Yves Gérardy
Pa11y 2.0 Released: Automated Accessibility Testing with PhantomJS tools Nature Publishing Group
Destroy With Science - Quantum Loop video demo
A video of someone using two Novation Launchpads with Loop Drop, a Web MIDI and We Audio based MIDI looper and synth.
Matt McKegg
lightgl.js: A Lightweight WebGL Library code
Designed for quick prototyping of WebGL apps, while being lower level than most other WebGL libraries.
Evan Wallace
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