Frontend Focus
Issue 204 — September 2, 2015
A detailed look at ‘client hints’ (supported in Chrome 46) which lets the browser send extra hints via HTTP headers as to the sort of images it wants back.
Ilya Grigorik

An offline first library that hides the complexity of using Service Workers and the new Caching API, and lets developers easily create sites that are accessible both online and offline.
Tal Ater

Frequently ignored and often abused, these elements contribute greatly to creating a semantically and typographically rich page when used correctly.
Dudley Storey

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While much of the initial excitement over Web Components has died down, the technology is still very much alive. This post summarizes the story so far.
Dr. Axel Rauschmayer

It’s now possible to manage whether scroll positions of pages are restored or not when navigating back through history.
Google Developers

How content is displayed is important to its understanding, and so we ask much of CSS. This document covers priorities for new CSS features.
W3C

A look at the varying behaviors of browsers when rendering resized radio buttons and checkboxes.
Robin Whittleton

requestIdleCallback is a new performance-oriented function for scheduling work to be performed when the user is idle, in order to keep pages fast and responsive.
Paul Lewis

The Chrome team are focusing on reducing Chrome’s memory footprint this year. Addy Osmani explains what’s involved, what they’re doing, and how you can help.
Google Developers

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In Brief

The WHATWG HTML Standard is Now Hosted on GitHub news
WHATWG

TPE to CR: Advancing The Conversation About Web Tracking Preferences news
A Candidate Recommendation of the Tracking Preference Expression (TPE) has been published which defines future mechanisms for expressing user preferences regarding tracking via HTTP headers.
W3C

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Alliance Established to Deliver Next-Gen Open Media Formats news
Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix have allied to work on a new open ultra high def video format for the Web.
Alliance for Open Media

Microsoft Edge Team Working on WebM and VP9 Support; Starting on Opus Soon 
Supporting links.
Microsoft

Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web tutorial
Mozilla Hacks

Making Selected Button States Clear for Color Blind Users tutorial
UX Movement

Web Animations on Large Screens tutorial
Effective web animations that work well using Firefox OS for TVs.
Mozilla Developer Network

Retinafy your web sites & apps by Thomas Fuchs tutorial
Does your app look fuzzy on phablets? You could spend hours researching how to retina-fy all your graphics for different devices, or you can learn it in an hour. Regular price $29, $5 off for our readers.
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Using Sass’s @error, @warn, and @debug Directives tutorial
SitePoint

CSS Properties to Control Web Typography tutorial
SitePoint

Why You Want to Disable jQuery.parseHTML Even If You Don't Call It opinion
It’s a security hazard.
Wladimir Palant

Safari is Not the New IE, But... opinion
Telerik Developer Network

Juiced: A Flexbox CSS Framework tools
Joey Lea

Smart Table Scroll: Build Fast 1 Million Row Tables with Native Scroll Bars code
Reuses and yields nodes on the fly to maintain the performance.
Chris Polis

Office UI Fabric: The Front-End Framework for Building Office Design Language Experiences code
A responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework, for creating web experiences using the Office Design Language.
Microsoft