Frontend Focus
Issue 214 — November 11, 2015
A thorough look at eBay’s approach to accessibility using HTML5, ARIA, and a variation of the BEM approach to CSS.
eBay Tech Blog

The potential of Service Workers has gotten Jeremy Keith excited and in an experimental mood. Here, he takes a code-heavy look at what he’s been doing.
Jeremy Keith

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The formaction attribute forces a form to direct to the specified URL instead of the URL specified as the value of the action attribute in the parent form element.
Wufoo

Firefox’s special ‘developer edition’ is now a year old. Version 44 includes new visual editing and memory management tools, plus a WebSocket debugging API, which are shown off here.
Mozilla Hacks

Some straight forward style and tooling suggestions for writing front-end code that’s ‘durable, reliable and would make NASA proud.’
Michael Fouquet

A demonstration of using a Service Worker to intercept requests for JPEGs and PNGs and rewriting them to request more efficient WebP images instead.
Dean Hume

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In Brief

Chrome To No Longer Support Win XP, Vista, OS X 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8 in 2016 news
Google Chrome Blog

O'Reilly Fluent 2016 Registration Has Opened (Mar 7-10, San Francisco) news
O'Reilly Media

Opera 33 Released, Based on Chromium 46 news
Has some new iframe features and supports link rel=preconnect.
Dev.Opera