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title: "This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 213)"
publication: "Frontend Focus"
issue: 213
published_at: "2015-11-04"
canonical_url: "https://frontendfoc.us/issues/213"
---
This Week's HTML5 and Browser Technology News (Issue 213)
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Frontend FocusIssue 213 — November 4, 2015[HTML5 on the Rise: No Longer Ahead Of Its Time](http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/28/html5-on-the-rise-no-longer-ahead-of-its-time/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) ‘Today marks the anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) declaring the HTML5 standard complete’ and other reflections on HTML5’s maturity. TechCrunch
[Flexbox For Interfaces All The Way](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/flexbox-interfaces-tracks-case-study/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A look at how a webapp leant on layout patterns well suited to the Flexible Box Layout (flexbox) system now supported by most browsers. Smashing Magazine
[DevTools Challenger: Explore Firefox's Animation Tools](http://devtoolschallenger.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Some hands-on exercises with all of Firefox’s new visual design tools. Fun stuff. Firefox
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[The Front-End Handbook](http://www.frontendhandbook.com/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Telerik’s Cody Lindley has produced a guide for ‘anyone to learn the practice of front-end development’ made up of brief insights and curated links. Cody Lindley
[ResponsiveVoice.js: Cross-Platform Text-to-Speech](http://responsivevoice.org/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Designed to add voice features to sites and apps across all major platforms. It supports 51 languages and has no dependencies. We had a lot of fun playing with this, but be aware of the licensing. Learnbrite
[The Image Replacement Museum](https://css-tricks.com/the-image-replacement-museum/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) CSS image replacement is the technique of replacing a text element with an image. This post looks at the long line of techniques that have been used to implement it over the years. Marie Mosley
[The Simple Way to Scrape an HTML Table: Google Docs](https://eagereyes.org/data/scrape-tables-using-google-docs?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) Google Docs supports pulling in HTML table into a spreadsheet using a single `=ImportHtml` expression. Robert Kosara
[So How Does The Browser Actually Render A Website?](http://www.thecssninja.com/browser/jsconfeu15?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) A 30 minute talk from JSConf EU 2015 coupled with slides. Ryan Seddon
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In Brief
['The HTML5 spec has 609,160 words in it. That's longer than Infinite Jest.'](https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/661601979198672896?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Paul Ford
[Goo Create Adds Support for Bringing HTML into WebGL Scenes](http://goocreate.com/blog/1168/put-html-in-your-webgl/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news tools
If you thought you included WebGL in an HTML document, well.. now think about including HTML documents inside your WebGL scenes as well..
Goo Create
[How Google’s AMP Project Speeds Up The Web - by Sandblasting HTML](http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/11/googles-amp-an-internet-giant-tackles-the-old-myth-of-the-web-is-too-slow/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) news
Ars Technica
[Which Input When?](http://morgancarter.com.au/design-solutions/which-input-when/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
A look at which form input types to use in certain contexts.
Morgan Carter
[Animating the `content` Property](https://css-tricks.com/animating-the-content-property/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Robin Rendle
[How to connect to a MySQL database with JavaScript](http://blog.dreamfactory.com/how-to-connect-to-a-mysql-database-with-javascript?utm_source=html5_weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=connect) tutorial
With the DreamFactory REST API platform, database connections for web apps are a breeze. In this tutorial, we lay out how to build a simple address book with MySQL, DreamFactory, and JavaScript.
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[How To Style and Position SVG Text With The tspan Element](http://vanseodesign.com/web-design/svg-text-tspan-element/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Steven Bradley
[Your First Offline Web App](https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/your-first-offline-web-app/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) featured
Learn how to integrate a service worker into an existing application to make it work offline.
Google Developers
[Bouncing Ball Game using HTML5 Canvas Element - Part 1](http://www.codingdefined.com/2015/10/bouncing-ball-game-using-html5-canvas.html?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tutorial
Hemant Joshi
[Three Years with CSS Grid Layout](https://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2015/11/03/three-years-with-css-grid-layout/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion
Rachel Andrew
[Why Static Website Generators Are The Next Big Thing](http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/modern-static-website-generators-next-big-thing/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) opinion tools
Smashing Magazine
[img2css: Convert Any Image to A Pure CSS Image](https://github.com/javierbyte/img2css?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) tools
A tool that converts an image into an element with a colored CSS shadow for every pixel. Beware - this gets highly inefficient with images that aren’t small.
Javier Bórquez
[canvid.js: Tiny Library to Play 'Videos' on Canvas Elements](http://gka.github.io/canvid/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Essentially plays many small JPEG frames. Helps get around autoplay restrictions of videos.
[Gendy.js: A Module for Dynamic Stochastic Web Audio Synthesis](http://abbernie.github.io/gendy/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) code
Andrew Bernstein and Ben Taylor
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[Google Web Font Inspiration in HTML and CSS](http://tobiasahlin.com/typesource/?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
Tobias Ahlin
[WebGL-powered Starmap for Star Citizen](https://robertsspaceindustries.com/starmap?utm_source=frontendfocus&utm_medium=email) demo
A beautiful use of WebGL, based on a forthcoming space game by the creator of _Wing Commander._
Roberts Space Industries
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