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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 204)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 204
published_at: "2015-09-02"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/204"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 204)
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Frontend FocusIssue 204 — September 2, 2015[Automating Resource Selection with Client Hints](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/automating-resource-selection-with-client-hints?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[UpUp: The Offline First Library](https://www.talater.com/upup/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[Using the 'blockquote', 'cite' and 'q' Elements](http://thenewcode.com/4/In-Other-Words-Using-the-blockquote-cite-and-q-elements?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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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[What Happened to Web Components?](http://www.2ality.com/2015/08/web-component-status.html?m=1) 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
[Scroll Restoration in the History API](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/history-api-scroll-restoration?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) It’s now possible to manage whether scroll positions of pages are restored or not when navigating back through history. Google Developers
[Priorities for CSS: A W3C First Public Working Draft](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-dpub-css-priorities-20150820/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[Making Radio Buttons and Checkboxes Easier to Use](https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2015/08/27/making-radio-buttons-and-checkboxes-easier-to-use/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A look at the varying behaviors of browsers when rendering resized radio buttons and checkboxes. Robin Whittleton
[Using Chrome's New 'requestIdleCallback' API](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/08/27/using-requestidlecallback?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[Tab Discarding in Chrome: a Memory-Saving Experiment](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discarding-in-chrome-46?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](https://github.com/whatwg/html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
WHATWG
[TPE to CR: Advancing The Conversation About Web Tracking Preferences](http://www.w3.org/blog/2015/08/tpe-to-cr-advancing-the-conversation-about-web-tracking-preferences/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-media-formats/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/webmcontainer/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email)
[Supporting](http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/vp9videocodec/) [links](http://dev.modern.ie/platform/status/opusaudiocodec/).
Microsoft
[Flash-Free Clipboard for the Web](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/flash-free-clipboard-for-the-web/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Mozilla Hacks
[Making Selected Button States Clear for Color Blind Users](http://uxmovement.com/buttons/making-selected-button-states-clear-for-color-blind-users/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
UX Movement
[Web Animations on Large Screens](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/TVs_connected_devices/Web_animations_on_large_screen?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Effective web animations that work well using Firefox OS for TVs.
Mozilla Developer Network
[Retinafy your web sites & apps by Thomas Fuchs](https://gumroad.com/l/retinafy/h5w?#) tutorial
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[Using Sass’s @error, @warn, and @debug Directives](http://www.sitepoint.com/using-sasss-error-warn-and-debug-directives/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
SitePoint
[CSS Properties to Control Web Typography](http://www.sitepoint.com/css-properties-to-control-web-typography/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
SitePoint
[Why You Want to Disable jQuery.parseHTML Even If You Don't Call It](https://palant.de/2015/08/30/why-you-probably-want-to-disable-jqueryparsehtml-even-though-you-don-t-call-it?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
It’s a security hazard.
Wladimir Palant
[Safari is Not the New IE, But...](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/safari-is-not-the-new-ie-but/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Telerik Developer Network
[Juiced: A Flexbox CSS Framework](http://juicedcss.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Joey Lea
[Smart Table Scroll: Build Fast 1 Million Row Tables with Native Scroll Bars](https://github.com/cmpolis/smart-table-scroll?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](https://github.com/OfficeDev/Office-UI-Fabric?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
A responsive, mobile-first, front-end framework, for creating web experiences using the Office Design Language.
Microsoft
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