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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 207)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 207
published_at: "2015-09-23"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/207"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 207)
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Frontend FocusIssue 207 — September 23, 2015[Let’s Write a Web Extension](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/lets_write_a_webextension/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) WebExtensions provides a new way to write Firefox extensions, but the API is mostly compatible with Chrome’s extension API bringing cross-browser extensions a step closer. This tutorial walks through building one. Mozilla Hacks
[A Blind Accessibility Expert on Web Accessibility](http://blogs.adobe.com/dreamweaver/2015/09/making-your-website-design-accessible.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A variety of insights from Bartek Lenarth, an accessibility expert from Poland, on what elements of Web design particularly matter for the blind. Adobe
[Firefox 41 Released: Several New Web APIs Go Live](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/41.0/releasenotes/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) The [MessageChannel](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MessageChannel), [MessagePort](https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/API/MessagePort), and [CSS Font Loading](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-font-loading/) APIs are enabled by default. A Cache API has also been implemented. Mozilla
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[The Comprehensive List of What Forces Layout/Reflow](https://gist.github.com/paulirish/5d52fb081b3570c81e3a?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A list of the various properties and methods which when requested or changed from JavaScript will trigger a costly layout refresh (a.k.a. layout thrashing or reflow). Paul Irish
[Creating UIs for the Web Audio API](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSThM9Aw8ps) Kicking off with a jazzy musical demonstration, Stephen Band leads into a 30 minute talk on working with user interfaces (both visual and hardware) for handling audio in the browser. SwissJS 2015
[ORTC (Object RTC) API Is Now Available in Microsoft Edge](http://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/09/18/ortc-api-is-now-available-in-microsoft-edge/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A preview version of an ORTC API implementation is in the latest Windows Insider Preview release. (ORTC essentially provides a more programmatic JavaScript based API to RTC functions than WebRTC presently does.) Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
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[CSS Basic UI 4, CSS Text 4 & CSS Round Display 1 Working Drafts Published](https://www.w3.org/blog/news/archives/5009?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
W3C
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[Chrome to Remove SMIL Animation Support](https://twitter.com/TobiReif/status/646358868709277696?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
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Tobi Reif on Twitter
[HTML5 Looks Good in Light of Google, Facebook and IAB Moves](http://www.itbusinessedge.com/articles/html5-looks-good-in-light-of-google-facebook-and-iab-moves.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Carl Weinschenk
[Facebook Will Accelerate Adoption of Web Push Notifications](http://insights.mobify.com/facebook-will-accelerate-adoption-of-web-push-notifications/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Karly Cyr
[The Self-Taught Web Developer's Guide to Landing Your First Job](http://kenrogers.co/first-job/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
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[GitHub Enables Subresource Integrity for CDN Assets](http://githubengineering.com/subresource-integrity/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Uses a new browser technology called [Subresource Integrity](http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/).
GitHub Engineering
[Stereoscopic Rendering in WebVR](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/09/stereoscopic-rendering-in-webvr/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
WebVR brings the Web and the Oculus Rift VR headset together.
Mozilla Hacks
[Building a HTML5 Control Surface for Ableton Live](http://www.djcrontab.com/2015/09/building-html5-control-surface-for.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Live is an awesome music sequencer and digital audio workstation.
Vincent Alsteen
[The Web Audio API: Make Your Own Web Synthesizer](http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/the-web-audio-api-make-your-own-web-synthesizer--cms-23887?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
A quick tutorial on building a simple browser-based synth with the Web Audio API.
Stuart Memo
[25 Tutorials for Developing HTML5 Web Browser Games](http://webdesignwheel.com/tutorials-for-developing-html5-web-browser-games.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Web Design Wheel
[Getting Responsive Tables to Behave](http://joshnh.com/weblog/getting-responsive-tables-to-behave/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email)
Responsive table CSS based upon a solution from CSS Tricks but with some significant variations.
Joshua Hibbert
[Customising Cross-Browser Range Inputs with CSS and JavaScript](https://css-tricks.com/custom-interactive-range-inputs/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Steven Estrella
[Dealing with Long Words in CSS](https://justmarkup.com/log/2015/07/31/dealing-with-long-words-in-css/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Just Markup
[New Animation Inspector Features in Firefox 43](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2jykykN3yc) video
Patrick Brosset
[8 Reasons Why I'm Glad I Switched to the Ionic Framework](http://www.joshmorony.com/8-reasons-why-im-glad-i-switched-to-the-ionic-framework/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Josh Morony
[Understanding Versions in An Evergreen Browser](https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2015/09/21/understanding-versions-in-an-evergreen-browser/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Some insights into Edge’s versioning scheme.
Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
[Building an Enterprise CSS Framework](https://medium.com/salesforce-ux/building-an-enterprise-framework-is-hard-1e8d8b33e082?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Salesforce UX
[Base64 File Encoder: Drag a File On, Get Base64 Back Instantly](http://jpillora.com/base64-encoder/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Jaime Pillora
[latex-to-html5: LaTeX Documents to HTML5 Conversion Tools](https://github.com/smarr/latex-to-html5?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
Stefan Marr
[flowchart.js: Draws SVG Flow Chart Diagrams from Textual Representations](http://adrai.github.io/flowchart.js/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Adriano Raiano
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