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The Web Font Loader gives you added control when using linked fonts via @font-face. A must read if you want to avoid the dreaded ‘flash of invisible text’.
Robin Rendle
An automatic update to Windows 10 users, this new version of the Edge HTML rendering component brings numerous new HTML5 and CSS features (including the ‘picture’, ‘meter’, and ‘template’ elements), and scores 458 on HTML5Test.
Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
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Comparing code outputs is one way to test Web pages are being rendered properly, but you can also compare their visual outputs to find more subtle styling issues.
CSS-Tricks
“For perhaps the first time since the original Macintosh, we can get excited about using system UI fonts. They’re an interesting, fresh alternative to web typography.”
Smashing Magazine
A look at using a service worker-augumented ‘Application Shell’ architecture to have a cached ‘shell’ for your pages populated with dynamic content. Great article - there’s a lot to pick up here.
Addy Osmani and Matt Gaunt
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Toolsday: A New Front-End Developer Tools Podcast from IBM news Una Kravets and Chris Dhanaraj
Upcoming Workshop: Web Animation with Rachel Nabors course Animating DOM elements is crucial to developing interactive designs and interfaces, and CSS is one of the most performant ways to animate today. Join us Dec 11th. Frontend Masters Sponsor
Firefox’s New Memory Tool tools
Firefox Developer Edition 44 contains a new tool for measuring and monitoring memory use by pages.
Mozilla Hacks
Recreating the Google Logo Animation with SVG and GreenSock tutorial Petr Tichy
DOM Tips and Techniques: Parent, Child, and Siblings tutorial Louis Lazaris
CSS Image Effects: Lomography tutorial code Una Kravets
WebRTC: Sending DTMF in Firefox tutorial
“Through the use of WebAudio oscillators, it is possible to synthesize DTMF tones and mix them into an audio stream.”
Mozilla Hacks
Receiving AWS IoT Messages in Your Browser using WebSockets aws tutorial João Parreira
An Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) tutorial SitePoint
Creating WebGL Components with Angular video Aysegul Yonet
Better Specifications for The Sake of The Web opinion
Pointers from the W3C for spec authors.
W3C
CSS in the Modern World opinion SitePoint
stack.gl: An Open Software Ecosystem for WebGL tools
Built on top of browserify and npm, stackgl aims to provide modularity to working with and stacking together WebGL productions.
stackgl
Goo.js WebGL Engine Goes Open-Source tools code
An open source 3D engine using HTML5 and WebGL for rendering.
Goo Technologies
Build Next-Generation Mobile Apps with Telerik Platform news Future Proof Your Apps. Telerik Platform 2.0 changes the game in mobile app development, enabling you to build beautiful apps with a rich user experience, fast and efficiently. Webinar Dec. 3, 2015 at 11 am ET. Telerik Sponsor
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