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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 201)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 201
published_at: "2015-08-12"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/201"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 201)
Push Notifications on the Web with Chrome, a WebGL 3D design tool, and a contest-winning 1KB Canvas demo — [Read this e-mail on the Web](http://frontendfoc.us/issues/201)
Frontend FocusIssue 201 — August 12, 2015[Push Notifications on the Web with Google Chrome](http://deanhume.com/Home/BlogPost/push-notifications-on-the-web---google-chrome/10128?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A walkthrough of how you can send push notifications to users of your site using Chrome’s Push Notification API. Dean Hume
[WebGLStudio.js: 3D Dev Environment for The Web](http://webglstudio.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A platform to create interactive 3D scenes directly from the browser, with visual scene editing, shader editing, etc. GTI Grafics Group
[What Comes Next for The Web Platform](https://vimeo.com/132501774?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Alex Russell, of both the W3C Technical Architecture Group and TC39, gave a talk about the state of the Web Platform and where things are headed. Alex Russell
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[CSSfmt: Format CSS Source Code Automatically](https://github.com/morishitter/cssfmt?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A tool that automatically formats CSS source code, inspired by Gofmt (used by Go developers) and built on top of the PostCSS ecosystem. Masaaki Morishita
[Introducing Backdrop Filters in WebKit](https://www.webkit.org/blog/3632/introducing-backdrop-filters/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) “The backdrop-filter style allows us to style elements with backdrop effects that resemble those in iOS and OS X.” Surfin' Safari
[Browser Trends August 2015: Chrome Exceeds 50%](http://www.sitepoint.com/browser-trends-august-2015-chrome-exceeds-50/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) In StatCounter’s statistics, Chrome passes the 50% usage mark for the first time and, encouragingly, IE11 vastly eclipses IE10 and below compared to last year. Chrome also holds a strong lead on mobile. Craig Buckler
[js13kGames Online HTML5 + JS Game Development Compo Launches Tomorrow](http://2015.js13kgames.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) You have to produce a game in just 13KB overall. JS13KGames
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[EFF-led Group Wants to Give 'Do Not Track' Some Bite](http://www.pcworld.com/article/2956652/effled-group-wants-to-give-donottrack-some-bite.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
PCWorld
[CSS Grid Layout Module Level 1 Working Draft Published](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-css-grid-1-20150806/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
This CSS module defines a two-dimensional grid-based layout system, optimized for UI design.
W3C
[Polymer Summit 2015: Amsterdam, NL (September 14-15)](https://www.polymer-project.org/summit?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Polymer
[Learn Node,js Online with 1-on-1 Mentorship](https://www.thinkful.com/a/dlp/learn-blue/base/NODE-001?utm_source=html5weekly&utm_campaign=html5weekly_aug12&utm_term=sponsoredlink) course
Use your JavaScript skills to conquer real-time, fullstack apps with projects covering MongoDB, Express, Git
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[Firefox Exploit Found in The Wild](https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Mozilla Security Blog
[The Latest Developer Features in Firefox 40](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/08/trainspotting-firefox-40/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Mozilla Hacks
[Creating an Audio Calling App with Ionic and PhoneRTC](http://www.sitepoint.com/creating-an-audio-calling-app-with-ionic-and-phonertc/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
PhoneRTC is a Cordova plugin for using WebRTC on Android and iOS devices.
SitePoint
[A Short Note On HTML Conformance Checking](http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/2015/08/short-note-on-html-conformance-checking/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
When you check a HTML document using [the W3C’s conformance checker](http://validator.w3.org/nu/) to see if its code conforms to the HTML specification, what do ‘errors’ and ‘warnings’ really mean?
Steve Faulkner
[Permissions API for The Web](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/04/permissions-api-for-the-web?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
The Permissions API gives you a central place to check the permission status of an API.
Matt Gaunt
[The State of Client-Side JavaScript Errors](https://trackjs.com/blog/the-state-of-client-side-javascript-errors/?utm_source=html5weekly) tutorial
The prevalence of JavaScript errors on the web, and the browsers and frameworks most impacted.
TrackJSSponsor
[Constructing CSS Quantity Queries On The Fly](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/07/constructing-css-quantity-queries-on-the-fly/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Smashing Magazine
[Managing Inline Images in CSS using PostCSS](http://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/managing-inline-images-in-css?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Ashley Nolan
[What's Wrong with the Web?](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/whats-wrong-with-the-web/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
There have been many discussions about what is ailing the web lately - in particular the mobile web. Brian rounds up much of the prevailing opinions and shares his thoughts.
Telerik Developer Network
[The Current State of HTML5/CSS3 Browser Support](http://designm.ag/web-designs/current-html5-css3-browser-support/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Jake Rocheleau
[Recreating Megaman 2 Using JavaScript and WebGL](https://medium.com/recreating-megaman-2-using-js-webgl?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email)
An entire series of blog posts.
Pontus Alexander
[BLCK4777: A 1KB Canvas Demo That Won at Assembly 2015](http://www.p01.org/releases/BLCK4777/BLCK4777_safe.htm?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
p01
[ng-VisualizeAudio: Angular Directive to Play and Visualize Audio](http://gauravbehere.in/ngVisualizeAudio/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo code
Gaurav Behere
[ogv.js: JavaScript Media Player using Ogg/Vorbis/Theora/Opus/WebM Libs Compiled with Emscripten](https://github.com/brion/ogv.js?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Brion Vibber
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