Frontend Focus
Issue 205 — September 9, 2015
Analysis of 1044 survey responses on CSS preprocessors, task runners, JS libraries, and more.
Ashley Nolan

CSS scroll snapping (available in Firefox 39+, partial support in IE and Edge, and in Safari 9+) allows you to control where to stop on an overflowing element when it’s scrolled.
Mozilla Hacks

A look at CSS Grid Layout, a relatively new W3C specification with limited but growing support (a polyfill exists, however).
Mozilla Hacks

Mailgun
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Digging into the implementation of visual effects in Canvas-based HTML5 games.
Mikołaj Stolarski Tomasz Grajewski

The practice of guessing what users need so assets can be fetched ahead of time has been called ‘prebrowsing’ and it’s formed of several techniques which Robin summarizes here.
Robin Rendle

A look at creating SVG maps of any area of the world ready for Web use.
Chris Youderian

Create shaders with no code. Compose multiple shaders together.
ShaderFrog

More stats than you could possibly want about native WebGL support on devices hitting a variety of sites.
WebGL Stats

Recent news is suggesting browser support for WebRTC without the need for plugins is coming soon.
BlogGeek.me

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In Brief

Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman: A Look at the Work of a Standards Pioneer news
Web Design Ledger

Updates to the Service Worker Cache API news
Jake Archibald

Houdini Task Force Meeting Report news
Houdini is a joint W3C TAG and CSS Working Group initiative to specify hooks into existing CSS.
Bruce Lawson

CSS Cascade 4: Last Call for Comments news
This CSS module describes how to collate style rules and assign values to all properties on all elements by way of cascading and inheritance.
W3C CSS WG Blog

Designing Safer Web Animation For Motion Sensitivity tutorial
Val Head

Is The Web Platform Getting Too Big?  opinion
Nicholas C Zakas

The Problems with Feature Detection opinion
Niels Leenheer

HTML Color Codes and HTML Color Pickers tools
Dixon and Moe

bitdash HTML5 Adaptive Video Streaming Player - MPEG-DASH - HLS tools
bitdash enables HTML5 adaptive streaming with no need for plugins like Flash or Silverlight. bitdash comes with a comprehensive API and custom player skins and styles.
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16 CSS Animation Tools and Frameworks tools
Paul Andrew

CanvasVideoRecorder: Record Frames From HTML5 Canvas to Video tools
Sends frames via XHR to a Python HTTP server that then runs ffmpeg.
zb3

Professional private code hosting for developers & teams tools
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HTML5 Deck of Cards demo
Juha Lindstedt

An HTML5 version of StarCraft code
Ryuta