Frontend Focus
Issue 210 — October 14, 2015
A look at using Polymer to work with components, HTML imports, shadow DOM, HTML templates and more, to build a modern, Material Design-themed app.
Smashing Magazine

The Command Line API provides a way to interact with a Web page from a JavaScript console.
SitePoint

AMP is a new open source initiative for publishers to create mobile optimized content using a framework built on existing web technologies.
Accelerated Mobile Pages Project

Thinkful
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Ties together specs forming the current state of CSS. Aimed at implementers rather than developers as support varies, but provides a big picture of the CSS landscape.
W3C

A more-interesting-than-you’d-think explanation of where CSS’s color names came from and why they’re still around.
Ars Technica

A fun one for you. Can you tell your blanchedalmond from your mintcream? It’s harder than you’d think.
Christian Heilmann

Cody Lindley demonstrates 16 various ways to search, find and edit within the source code of a site using Chrome Developer Tools.
Telerik Developer Network

They’re going, but “because Flash is still a common part of the Web experience for most users, we will continue to support Flash within Firefox as an exception”
Mozilla

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In Brief

Chrome Finally Kills Off The HTTP-HTTPS “Mixed Content” Warning news
Ars Technica

FindText API, W3C Editor's Draft news
Describes an API for finding ranges of text in a document.
W3C

Web Platform WG is the new WebApps news
W3C

Google Acquires Divshot To Join Its Firebase Team, Will Shut Down In December news
TechCrunch

How to Modularize HTML Using Template Engines and Gulp tutorial
Zell Liew

Inlining Critical CSS for Dynamic Web Apps tutorial
Nicolas Bevacqua

Using PostCSS for Cross Browser Compatibility tutorial
Tuts+

Porting Chrome Extensions to Firefox with WebExtensions tutorial
Mozilla Hacks

Introducing GSS: Grid Style Sheets tutorial
SitePoint

Chrome 46: New Motion-Path Animations, Client Hints and Service Worker Improvements video
YouTube

Web Font Anti-Pattern: Overusing Web Fonts opinion
The use of custom fonts on the Web has exploded in recent years.
Bram Stein

Animation Advice from a CSS Master opinion
SitePoint

Why AMP HTML Does Not Take Full Advantage of The Preload Scanner opinion
Malte Ubl

Fayde: Silverlight Everywhere, but via JS and HTML5 tools
A XAML engine using JavaScript and rendering to the HTML5 Canvas.
Brad Sickles

Rune.js: SVG-based JavaScript Drawing Library code
Packed with features. For both browser or under Node.js.
Rune Madsen

PostCSS UnMQ: PostCSS Plugin that Removes Media Queries from CSS While Preserving Rules code
Handy if you need to output desktop CSS for old browsers like IE8.
Jonathan Neal

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Why Does HTML Think “chucknorris” Is A Color? 
An olden goldie, but I figured newer subscribers might appreciate it.
Stack Overflow

The Lego Movie's Emmet in Pure CSS demo
CodePen