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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 210)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 210
published_at: "2015-10-14"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/210"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 210)
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Frontend FocusIssue 210 — October 14, 2015[Building a Material Design App With Polymer Starter Kit](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/10/responsive-material-design-app-with-polymer-starter-kit/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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 for Fun and Profit](http://www.sitepoint.com/command-line-api-fun-profit/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) The [Command Line API](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/javascript/command-line/command-line-reference) provides a way to interact with a Web page from a JavaScript console. SitePoint
[AMP: The Accelerated Mobile Pages Project](https://www.ampproject.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
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[CSS Snapshot 2015](http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/NOTE-css-2015-20151013/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
['Tomato' Versus '#FF6347' - The Tragicomic History of CSS Color Names](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/tomato-versus-ff6347-the-tragicomic-history-of-css-color-names/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A more-interesting-than-you’d-think explanation of where CSS’s color names came from and why they’re still around. Ars Technica
[The CSS Color Name Game](http://codepo8.github.io/css-colour-names/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A fun one for you. Can you tell your blanchedalmond from your mintcream? It’s harder than you’d think. Christian Heilmann
[16 Ways to Search, Find and Edit with Chrome DevTools](http://developer.telerik.com/featured/16-ways-to-search-find-and-edit-with-chrome-devtools/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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
[NPAPI Plugins in Firefox Gone by 2017, But...](https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2015/10/chrome-finally-kills-off-the-http-https-mixed-content-warning/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Ars Technica
[FindText API, W3C Editor's Draft](http://w3c.github.io/findtext/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Describes an API for finding ranges of text in a document.
W3C
[Web Platform WG is the new WebApps](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2015OctDec/0058.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
W3C
[Google Acquires Divshot To Join Its Firebase Team, Will Shut Down In December](http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/13/google-acquires-divshot-to-join-its-firebase-team-will-shut-down-in-december/?ncid=rss=twitter) news
TechCrunch
[How to Modularize HTML Using Template Engines and Gulp](http://www.zell-weekeat.com/nunjucks-with-gulp/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Zell Liew
[Inlining Critical CSS for Dynamic Web Apps](http://ponyfoo.com/articles/inlining-critical-css?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Nicolas Bevacqua
[Using PostCSS for Cross Browser Compatibility](http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/using-postcss-for-cross-browser-compatibility--cms-24567?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Tuts+
[Porting Chrome Extensions to Firefox with WebExtensions](https://hacks.mozilla.org/2015/10/porting-chrome-extensions-to-firefox-with-webextensions/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Mozilla Hacks
[Introducing GSS: Grid Style Sheets](http://www.sitepoint.com/introducing-gss-grid-style-sheets/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
SitePoint
[Chrome 46: New Motion-Path Animations, Client Hints and Service Worker Improvements](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1F8GEiZf9o) video
YouTube
[Web Font Anti-Pattern: Overusing Web Fonts](http://bramstein.com/writing/web-font-anti-patterns-overusing.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
The use of custom fonts on the Web has exploded in recent years.
Bram Stein
[Animation Advice from a CSS Master](http://www.sitepoint.com/animation-advice-from-a-css-master/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
SitePoint
[Why AMP HTML Does Not Take Full Advantage of The Preload Scanner](https://medium.com/@cramforce/why-amp-html-does-not-take-full-advantage-of-the-preload-scanner-7e7f788aa94e?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Malte Ubl
[Fayde: Silverlight Everywhere, but via JS and HTML5](http://fayde.io/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
A XAML engine using JavaScript and rendering to the HTML5 Canvas.
Brad Sickles
[Rune.js: SVG-based JavaScript Drawing Library](http://runemadsen.github.io/rune.js/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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](https://github.com/jonathantneal/postcss-unmq?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) 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?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/8318911/3951?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email)
An olden goldie, but I figured newer subscribers might appreciate it.
Stack Overflow
[The Lego Movie's Emmet in Pure CSS](http://codepen.io/rachel_web/pen/rOLRvM/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
CodePen
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