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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 200)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 200
published_at: "2015-08-05"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/200"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 200)
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Frontend FocusIssue 200 — August 5, 2015[HTML5 Privacy Hole Left Users Open to Tracking](http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-08/04/privacy-hole-in-firefox?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A writeup about how the precision in values provided by the Battery Status API could be used to track users who otherwise didn’t want to be tracked. If you want more detail, [here’s the academic paper (PDF)](https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/616.pdf) behind it. Wired
[If We Stand Still, We Go Backwards](https://jakearchibald.com/2015/if-we-stand-still-we-go-backwards/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Chrome developer advocate Jake Archibald argues that the modern Web isn’t more complicated to code for but that users have higher expectations and halting technological advancements is not a worthwhile strategy. Jake Archibald
[Cutting the Mustard with CSS Media Queries](http://www.sitepoint.com/cutting-the-mustard-with-css-media-queries/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A method that involves checking for browser capabilities before loading further CSS and JavaScript to give the user an enhanced experience. SitePoint
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[Clear Site Data: A W3C First Public Working Draft](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-clear-site-data-20150804/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Defines a mechanism to allow web developers to instruct a user agent to clear a user’s locally stored data related to the current host and its subdomains. W3C
[Advanced CSS Filters](http://iamvdo.me/en/blog/advanced-css-filters?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A look at two cutting edge CSS filter features: backdrop-filter, and a filter specifically for backgrounds only. Vincent De Oliveira
[Responsive Design for Personalised Subtitles](http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper295?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A (PDF) paper describing a new approach to displaying subtitles alongside HTML5 video content in a responsive manner. BBC R
[Quiz: Do You Understand Semantic HTML?](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/quiz-do-you-know-semantic-html--cms-24479?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) You like quizzes, right? This one’s only 9 questions long. Tuts+
[Pointer Events Now in Firefox Nightly](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/08/pointer-events-now-in-firefox-nightly/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Pointer events are now supported in the nightly builds of Firefox. Check out this article for details and how to use the API. Mozilla Hacks
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[Using Asm.js and WebGL for Unity and Unreal Engine](http://www.sitepoint.com/asm-js-and-webgl-for-unity-and-unreal-engine/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news opinion
A good overview of how the technologies have been tied together.
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[Web Inspector Interface Changes](https://www.webkit.org/blog/3574/web-inspector-interface-changes/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Some key changes to WebKit’s developer tools are now in in WebKit Nightly Builds and the Safari 9 beta.
Surfin' Safari
[YouTube Makes New HTML5-based Desktop Player Available to Everyone](http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/04/youtube-rolls-out-new-html5-player/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Engadget
[Opera 31 Released](https://dev.opera.com/blog/opera-31/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Also includes what’s new in the release (and also Chromium 44, upon which it is based).
Dev.Opera
[Making and Breaking the Web With CSS Gradients](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/08/making-and-breaking-the-web-with-css-gradients/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Mozilla Hacks
[Responsive Solutions for Feature Comparison Tables](http://www.sitepoint.com/responsive-solutions-for-feature-comparison-tables/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
SitePoint
[How to Become a Great Front-End Engineer](http://philipwalton.com/articles/how-to-become-a-great-front-end-engineer/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Written by an engineer from Google.
Philip Walton
[Microsoft Edge Review: Windows Finally Has A Good Browser](http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/29/9066255/microsoft-windows-edge-browser-review?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
The Verge
[CSS: Why We Need Localized Constants](https://macropod.com/blog/why-we-need-localized-css-constants/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
James Coleman
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[Super Mario World Implemented in a WebGL Shader](https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XtlSD7?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
Krzysztof Narkowicz
[A 3D Audio Visualization with Three.js and Web Audio API](http://blog.neribarnini.me/3d-audio-analyser-with-three-js-and-web-audio-api/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code demo
Neri Barnini
[jquery.stacky: Easy Stacking of Panels using jQuery](https://github.com/jachinte/jquery.stacky?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
A jQuery plugin that gives you the ability to open panels horizontally on demand.
Miguel Jiménez
[MediaElement.js: HTML5 Video and Audio Player](http://mediaelementjs.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
John Dyer
[react-dropzone: Simple HTML5 Drag-Drop Zone in React.js](https://github.com/paramaggarwal/react-dropzone?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Param Aggarwal
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