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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 205)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 205
published_at: "2015-09-09"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/205"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 205)
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Frontend FocusIssue 205 — September 9, 2015[The State of Front-End Tooling – 2015](http://ashleynolan.co.uk/blog/frontend-tooling-survey-2015-results?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Analysis of 1044 survey responses on CSS preprocessors, task runners, JS libraries, and more. Ashley Nolan
[Scroll Snapping Explained](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/scroll-snapping-explained/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[The Future of Layout with CSS: Grid Layouts](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/the-future-of-layout-with-css-grid-layouts/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A look at CSS Grid Layout, a relatively new W3C specification with limited but growing support (a [polyfill](https://github.com/FremyCompany/css-grid-polyfill) exists, however). Mozilla Hacks
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[Principles Of HTML5 Game Design](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/principles-of-html5-game-design/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Digging into the implementation of visual effects in Canvas-based HTML5 games. Mikołaj Stolarski Tomasz Grajewski
[Prefetching, Preloading, Prebrowsing](https://css-tricks.com/prefetching-preloading-prebrowsing/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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 Guide To Building SVG Maps From Natural Earth Data](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/09/making-svg-maps-from-natural-earth-data/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A look at creating SVG maps of any area of the world ready for Web use. Chris Youderian
[ShaderFrog: Browser-Based WebGL Shader Editor](http://shaderfrog.com/home?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Create shaders with no code. Compose multiple shaders together. ShaderFrog
[WebGL Stats](http://webglstats.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) More stats than you could possibly want about native WebGL support on devices hitting a variety of sites. WebGL Stats
[A WebRTC Plugin Free World is Almost Here](https://bloggeek.me/webrtc-plugin-free-world-is-almost-here-apple-and-microsoft-joining-the-crowd/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](https://webdesignledger.com/jeffrey-zeldman-interview?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Web Design Ledger
[Updates to the Service Worker Cache API](https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/updates-to-cache-api?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Jake Archibald
[Houdini Task Force Meeting Report](https://dev.opera.com/articles/houdini-f2f-report/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://www.w3.org/blog/CSS/2015/09/09/cascade-4-last-call/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://alistapart.com/article/designing-safer-web-animation-for-motion-sensitivity?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Val Head
[Is The Web Platform Getting Too Big?](https://www.nczonline.net/blog/2015/09/is-the-web-platform-getting-too-big/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Nicholas C Zakas
[The Problems with Feature Detection](http://blog.html5test.com/2015/08/the-problems-with-feature-detection/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Niels Leenheer
[HTML Color Codes and HTML Color Pickers](http://htmlcolorcodes.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Dixon and Moe
[bitdash HTML5 Adaptive Video Streaming Player - MPEG-DASH - HLS](http://www.dash-player.com/?utm_source=cooperpress.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_term=&utm_content=_HTML5-weekly-newsletter&utm_campaign=external_Newsletter ) 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](http://speckyboy.com/2015/09/09/css-animation/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Paul Andrew
[CanvasVideoRecorder: Record Frames From HTML5 Canvas to Video](https://github.com/zb3/CanvasVideoRecorder?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Sends frames via XHR to a Python HTTP server that then runs ffmpeg.
zb3
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[HTML5 Deck of Cards](https://deck-of-cards.js.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
Juha Lindstedt
[An HTML5 version of StarCraft](https://github.com/gloomyson/StarCraft?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Ryuta
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